A Conversation with the Tabernacles Choir from Secunderabad
Music is one aspect which brings people together and keeps them bonded for long periods of time. Such bonding is...
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Imagine hearing today what the great pianist – composers heard while composing their music or playing it. Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin,...
DIEGETIC MUSIC IN OPERA: 3 WAYS TO USE IT
If you don’t recognise the term, you definitely recognise the device. Diegetic music in a show – be it television, film, or even opera – is essentially music that the characters hear as well as the audience. In film and...
True Multiculturalism: In touch with Param Vir
We spoke the other day with Indian composer Param Vir, whose recent work, Cave of Luminous Mind, takes the writings...
Autumn 2017 Season of the Symphony Orchestra of India
Works by Beethoven, Mozart, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Korngold, and Karl Jenkins to be showcased 13th – 28th September, 2017 |...
DAY FIVE MATINEE AT THE SALZBURG FESTIVAL
On Sunday 27th August, there was a concert performance of Donizetti’s bel canto masterpiece – Lucrezia Borgia. With a line-up of some of the best singers in the world, this was a three hour long performance. Victor Hugo’s Lucrèce Borgia,...
ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER IN RECITAL
It is not often that Anne-Sophie Mutter appears anywhere in recital. But here she is on my fourth day at...
A SPECTACULAR AIDA FROM THE GROSSES FESTSPIELHAUS
This opera from the late period which includes other masterpieces like Don Carlo and the Requiem Mass represents Verdi at...