Reviews
Arabella was born in ambiguity, in very many senses. It was conceived in an uneasy collaboration between Richard Strauss and his longtime librettist, the Austrian poet and philosopher Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Unhappy with the panning of their previous opera (Die ägyptische Helena) by the press because of the heavy
Features
This year, after the Jaipur Literature Festival, we had the opportunity to speak with Mr Sanjoy Roy, the Managing Director of Teamwork Arts on a variety of topics related to the arts, their impact across the world, especially in India, and get an insight into what we could perhaps do
Travel Diaries
The Madras Musical Association choir, along with the Coimbatore Chamber Chorale performed four shows in Vienna, between the 8th and 17th of June 2016. Here’s a glimpse of the Choir’s journey: The poster of the Choir’s first show at Vienna. The show happened on June 8th, at
News
The Embassy of Switzerland in India and the Consulate General of Switzerland in Mumbai announce the performances of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, in Mumbai. Currently on an Asian tour through Seoul, Yongin, Daejeon, Shanghai, Xi’an, Singapore, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra will perform for the very first time in India.
The Doon School Music Department is looking for a Western Classical Music teacher, specializing in Piano, with an ATCL, or equivalent degree, in piano. In order to apply, you must have/be able to: 1. Teach piano repertoire from stage ‘beginner’ to Grade 8 (Trinity College London) 2. Teach Theory
Reviews
I have attended so many classical music concerts, from the Boston Symphony Orchestra to the Wiener Philharmoniker. But every time I step into a concert hall and listen to the musicians play the eagerly awaited first note, I am moved. I feel like I had forgotten what it is like
Reviews
There are some concerts that take listeners through more than just their own lives, to the universality of all lives lived. Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhaus Orchestra’s extremely intense performance of Mahler’s 3rd Symphony had precisely this effect, one which was fully in consonance with its composer’s
Music Education
Some time ago, while discussing this article by Graham Wade in Classical Guitar Magazine, Veda Aggarwal (Director of the Indian Guitar Federation) asked me to reflect upon my experience of playing in India over the last few years, and in particular, those aspects surrounding performance production that are unique to
Features
In our infancy we are told fairy tales, and these stories retain a great power over us throughout our lives. In many ways the tenets of fairy tales and folk legends are the characteristics of all great music, because all great pieces are fundamentally stories. Calvino writes that in folk
Music Education
Everything used to be simpler before. Classical musicians composed classical music, pop musicians pop and jazz musicians were the exotic birds. But now these boundaries are becoming increasingly obsolete. Artists ranging from Mouse on Mars to Hauschka are going ways that have long remained untrodden. There is plenty happening in
Reviews
Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhaus Orchestra’s concert of Wagner (Overture to Tannhauser and Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde) and Bruckner (3rd Symphony) at the Gewandhaus, Leipzig, provided as much food for thought as it did of emotion. The emotional intensity of their performance of the Wagner was
Music Education
One of the first hurdles a young musician meets as he or she pursues advanced training is the fact that there are never enough practice rooms.Music students and graduates, how many hours do you think you’ve spend sitting in practice room hallways, thumbing through your scores, eagerly looking