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Alan Gemmell OBE, Director - British Council India
Nikhil Sardana: Please share your background with us. Alan Gemmell: I grew up in Scotland in an ordinary working class community and somewhere between the ages of 12 and 13 had my first piano lesson. A year later I went to the Royal Conservatoire of Music (formerly Royal Scottish Academy
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Fame, love and tragedy: Remembering India’s stellar pianist Olga Craen
Olga Craen, India’s best known pianist in the mid-20th century, lived a dramatic life and left a lasting legacy through her students From the 1930s to the 1950s, Olga Craen was the most celebrated pianist of Bombay, and one of the most acclaimed Indian pianists touring in Europe. When
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Musing in Barçelona
The Catalan capital happens to be one of those cities that slither into your heart with such stealthy and disarming ease, that at times you wonder who slipped you the love potion. The city that has nurtured geniuses like Antoni Gaudi, Alicia de Larrocha, Salvador Dalí and Lionel Messi, has
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Marialena Fernandes
Nikhil Sardana: Please share your background with us. Marialena Fernandes: I grew up in Bombay in a family of four sisters and one brother. My parents came from Goa and Mangalore and are Roman Catholic by religion - conversion through colonisation. Ever since I can remember, music has been the
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The Swiss Connection
James Gaffigan, Chief conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, looks ahead with a firm sense of history intact. By Neha M Lucerne is home to more than just Lake Lucerne and stunning mountainous views: the central Switzerland town also has a rich history of classical music, and is perhaps best
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Simply Schubert – The Bangalore Men on Tour in August
Simply Schubert – an eclectic mix of flowing male-choruses, tender and dramatic lieder and flowing piano solos, presented by The Bangalore School of Music. The program will showcase the musical genius of Schubert, with some of his most beloved choruses for male choir, such as Vier Gesänge, Ständchen (with soprano solo)
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Remembering Aruna Sunderlal – The Bangalore School of Music mourns the loss of its Founder and Managing Trustee
The music fraternity in Bangalore joined The Bangalore School of Music to mourn the loss of its Founder and Managing Trustee, Mrs Aruna Sunderlal, who passed away in the evening hours of Thursday, June 23, 2016 after a brief illness. She is deeply mourned by her children Shefali S Chandel
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6 ANIMALS WHO LOVE OPERA MORE THAN PENGUINS
If you haven’t yet heard, there’s a certain waddle of penguins (apparently it’s “waddle”, not “flock”!) in Antarctica that get totally freaked out by the sound of a tenor. *Note: tenor Nick Allen has removed his original upload, after getting concerned feedback from the International Association of
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Empowering lives through music
With its quaint name, many who hear of this Bangalore based music school ask if they have heard correctly and sometimes how it is pronounced. The name is in fact a hybrid of the two instruments the institute provides specialised training in; the Violin and the Voice. The VioVoi Music
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Sidelined, But Not Forgotten – The mysterious and wonderful music of Henri Dutilleux
Sometime in the mid 1990s, I heard a radio broadcast of a work that to this day remains one of the most unusual, striking and beautiful pieces of music I have ever encountered. As luck would have it, I tuned in somewhere in the middle of the work, so like
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To India with love!
My first meeting with India was through a friend working at the Swedish Embassy in Delhi around 2005. I stayed three weeks, doing the ordinary tourist thing like the Agra, Taj Mahal, Jaipur and Khajuraho, but we also went to Ladakh and did some high altitude trekking for a few