HATS OFF GENTLEMEN, A GENIUS
As I was leaving the Tata theatre, I ran into the composer Reena Esmail after her premiere performance of ‘This...
FAREWELLS AND ALPINE TREKS: THE STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN WITH RENÉE FLEMING AND CHRISTIAN THIELEMANN
The highlight of the 19 May concert performed by the Staatskapelle Dresden under the direction of Christian Thielemann at the Theatre...
Acharya Johann Sebastian Bach
Was Johann Sebastian Bach Western classical music’s “last Asian composer”? The question was raised in Bombay in March at a seminar celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of the great German composer. The seminar focused on one of Bach’s...
Murali Haricharan Das, Chairman and Managing Director – Musée Musical
Nikhil Sardana: What is the history of Musée Musical? When was it established in India and how did your family come...
Dentro de mundo de Falla (Inside Falla’s world)
In their recent collaboration, Neemrana Music Foundation, along with Embassy of Spain and Instituto De Cervantes presented works by a...
King of Melody, Lord of Rhythm: Lydian Nadhaswaram’s musical journey
Prelude Music lies deep within his bones. It pulses in each of his cells, tingles down his nerves, races through his veins. It shapes his very breath, his heart, his soul, and it chimes and resounds in every syllable of...
Summer Concerts 2017
It’s going to be a “Grand Night for Singing” with The Capital City Minstrels this May. Celebrating song and music...
4 WAYS TO GIVE NOTES & STILL BE LIKED
Part of the job of the music staff working on an opera is to deliver notes to the singers. Notes,...