News
Young Indian Musicians Get Chance of a Lifetime Collaborating with European and Japanese Professionals On the 2nd of November 2016, Keys of Change announced that the Kolkata Youth Orchestra, an orchestra made up of young Kolkatan musicians from a variety of backgrounds, including many from very deprived backgrounds, will be
Interviews
Nikhil Sardana: Please share you background with us. K N Suntook: I am a Bombay person. My family has been here for hundreds of years. We grew up in a very western atmosphere. My grandfather had a huge collection of records and would play the piano and sing Lieder after
Features
In the introduction to the book, Opera Buffa in Mozart’s Vienna (1997), Mary Hunter and James Webster write that ‘Opera Buffa’ fell between art and entertainment. Cutting across contemporary topics and characters, it was open to a variety of aesthetic strands. It always had one foot in the contemporary
Music Education
Pianists, when you’re playing orchestral reductions, it’s all a complicated system of smoke and mirrors. Rather than on getting every note under your fingers, your priorities lay in creating a broader palate of sound, representing the different sections of a hypothetical orchestra. There’s a difference in sound
News
Mixed Voices, a vocal ensemble from Geretsried, Germany, will visit New Delhi in November 2016. In collaboration with Delhi’s most well-known choir, The Capital City Minstrels, this Bavarian choir will perform in the capital at the India International Centre and the German Embassy on November 2nd and 3rd, 2016.
Reviews
Opening Concert at the Royal Opera House Mumbai | 21st October 2016 At the hundred plus year old ROH Mumbai, there was an air of anticipation. This was not the normal recital at the NCPA but an event to go down in history. The ROH was open to public in the
Features
Gauging the milieu An ethnomusicologist and a music educator, Natalie Sarrazin, is currently teaching at the York State University of New York in Brockport. During her second visit to India, she was interested to study the impact of popular music amongst the teenagers in Indian schools. She explored the ground
Throwback Thursday
Some of my earliest memories are of listening to records of the Philadelphia Orchestra as a little girl, sitting by my father’s side. Learning to sing and play the piano was assumed to be a basic part of our upbringing in the Helms Family. My father, Eric Daniel Helms,
Travel Diaries
I have been living away from the US for 6 years now, so it is always a pleasure to return back there to perform, and to see old friends and music colleagues. Here are some photos from my tour in May and June – I performed several solo recitals, and two
Reviews
Once a year, perhaps twice a year, one might get to a concert in London that goes down as a life-long memory of something extraordinary. The performance on the 29th September, 2016 at London’s Royal Festival Hall by the Philharmonia Orchestra of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex had precisely that
Features
Cassia Avenue at Rajokri, New Delhi is not a common route for me. I reached way ahead of the scheduled concert time. Ambassador Joao da Camara and his wife Raquel Pereira da Camara asked me to wait at the drawing cum waiting room. The musicians would arrive shortly, they told
News
On the 20th of September 2016, 7 instrumentalists, an Odissi dancer and 8 Indian singers set off for France. They joined the vocal soloists and instrumentalists of Akadêmia in a series of performances of the opera Orfeo, Crossing the Ganges. Three years have passed since the premiere of the opera,