Interviews
Sebanti Chatterjee: Hello! Please tell us a little bit about your journey to the world of Western classical music? Sunit Tandon: I came here in the mid 70’s. I learnt piano at Lucknow. My Piano teacher introduced me to the then director, Mr. Palamkote. Thereafter, I was introduced to
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6th Nov / 11am : Mumbai Prithvi Theatre Voyage en Europe 7th Nov / 7pm : Mumbai NCPA Exp Theatre 1. Rachmaninoff : piano trio “élégiaque” n°1 in G minor 2. Fauré : 2nd sonata for violin and piano P.I Tchaikovsky : piano trio in A minor op50 8th Nov / 7pm : Mumbai NCPA Exp Theatre
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Develop your skills, Hear from an ABRSM examiner Learn more about how to get the most from your students Come along to a FREE teacher support workshop from ABRSM! Inspiring musical learning (Delhi, Kerala, Lucknow and Pune) This is a practical session that will give you plenty of ideas to
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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
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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
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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