Reviews
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
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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