Music Education
My first exposure to Leo Brouwer – the name and the music – happened sometime in 1981 when I heard the German guitarist Wolfgang Condin performing at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi. At that time, I had been a largely rock-preoccupied guitar player for a few years, with only a vague
Music Education
Concert installation for variable number of rooms, musicians and audience, interconnected through a Feedback Delay Network system (2016) Duration: 60-80 Minutes “Verschränkte Spielräume” – “Entangled Spaces” interconnects a variable number of musicians and rooms. Through the acoustic connections between the rooms and a feedback-delay network system, the musicians try to hear
Music Education
Pianists, when you’re playing an opera score, you’re more than a master of your instrument; you are problem-solving machines. You solve problems with un-ergonomic orchestral reductions, with meeting someone else’s tempo, and with turning 200-300 of your own pages. Simply put, playing opera scores is about keeping
Interviews
Nikhil Sardana: What is the International Music & Arts Society? Tell us about its founder. What was the purpose and vision of setting up this organisation? Urmila Devi Kotda Sangani: The International Music & Arts Society(IMAS) is a charitable, not-for-profit organisation founded in 1974 by my mother Rani Vijaya
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To celebrate the re-opening of the Royal Opera House in Mumbai, The Neemrana Music Foundation and the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation join hands to propose an exclusive program of Western classical music. The Royal Opera House has been the pride of Mumbai ever since its inauguration in 1912. The Opera
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As a music lover, and if I take a leap forward to call myself a ‘connoisseur’, the opportunity to witness some of the big orchestral performances in London was a delightful experience! About the London Philharmonic Orchestra Founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932, the London Philharmonic Orchestra is resident
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THE ITALIAN EMBASSY CULTURAL CENTRE, NEW DELHI and MUMBAI PRESENT: ENRICO ZANISI – PIANO TALES INDIAN TOUR Event venues: Kolkata 27th November 7:30 pm The Dalhousie Institute, 42, Fazlul Haque Sarani, Ballygunge Delhi 28th November 6:30 pm India International Centre, Max Mueller Marg Chennai 2nd December 5:30 pm
Features
If the guitar had a patron saint or two, Francisco Tarrega would surely be one of them (Antonio Torres the other, perhaps?). More of us would remember him a lot better for a lot more than we do now, and that’s saying something, considering that a number of his
Music Education
Most of us have heard music described as the universal language. I have heard this expression as long as I can remember and I have spent a good amount of effort trying to prove it to myself, trying to find complicated explanations for what I felt intuitively. I simultaneously struggled
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Sometimes even with the best possible performers, the recipe just doesn’t work, each artiste preferring to stick to their own comfortable perfection. And at no moment do they seem to want to share with either their colleagues or their audience the grand adventure that is music. But when a
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In the mid-19th century, a great many French musicians were forced to leave their homeland and seek their fortunes elsewhere, sometimes far from Europe. Many of these were refugees from the events of the Third French Revolution of 1848, which ended the Restoration of the French Monarchy and began the
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