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My father was a very successful person and an exceptional human being. In order to deserve his love, I thought I had to be successful too, so, as a child, I was very eager with my studies, and later became a dedicated scholar. I started learning Ancient Greek and Latin,
Music Education
Recently I had the opportunity to adjudicate at the MusiQuest Festival in Pune where I heard dozens of students from around India perform 200 pieces of music. The group I asked to work with was the youngest one, comprised of students ages 5 through 10. There was a lot of
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Mark your calendars! The ‘Tales of the Night’ concert series will cover a choral, piano and poetic evening of German Romantic Music by Brahms, Schubert and Schumann in Bangalore, New Delhi and Pune from the 1st – 7th of February 2016. We spoke with conductor Françoise Lasserre who stated : ” Our main
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The flight to Jaipur was a literary affair. There were more books than passengers, more intense conversations than crying babies, and a general buzz of excitement that formed a counterpoint to the engine noise. Ruskin Bond sat towards the fore of the cabin, regaling his fortunate row-mates with some story
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Music Basti connects at-risk children, youth and artists, with the aim to inspire growth and a sense of community through a creative and joyful music learning experience. The project was set up in 2008, and is managed and administered by Integrated Development Education Association (IDEA), a registered Association established in
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Why is choral music important? William Byrd said as long ago as 1588 – ‘ Since singing is so good a thing, I wish all men would learn to sing ‘. For men nowadays read everyone! The sheer excitement of making music with one’s own body together with other people, is reason
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The last 10 years has proved a very exciting time for opera and classical music in London with companies bringing music out of the concert hall and into new spaces. Audiences gather in warehouses, pubs, bars, clubs and a selection of the more unusual venues London has to offer, such
Throwback Thursday
Music is service and awareness. The Cloud Forest Symphony Project was born out of a personal experience. While traveling to Singapore, I went with my family to the Cloud Forest Biosphere. It was a magnificent installation, however I found myself being incredibly disturbed-it was too silent, except for the man
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Maya Azucena suddenly found herself surrounded. After playing to a packed house at a local women’s college, over a hundred members of the audience flocked to the stage, all hoping to snap a selfie with the American soul singer. Maya had spent the previous hour singing songs inspired by
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Please share your background with us. I was born and raised in Adelaide, Australia as second child of five. My parents were both mathematicians who met while doing doctorate studies at Caltech and worked at Flinders University in Adelaide. My father was born and raised in Australia and my mother
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American composer John Adams chose the theme of his latest opera, A Flowering Tree, well. It premiered in Vienna in 2006 and has been revived a few times already—most recently in Paris in May 2014, newly staged by Hindi film director Vishal Bhardwaj, with marvellous costumes by Gunjan Arora
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Italian Pianist Gabriele Carcano is debuting in India with performances in New Delhi, Pune and Mumbai from the 5th – 11th of January 2016. Gabriele had this to say on his first trip to India – ” I’m very excited and curious about my upcoming recitals in New Delhi, Pune and Mumbai.