Music Education
Pianists, when you’re playing orchestral reductions, it’s all a complicated system of smoke and mirrors. Rather than on getting every note under your fingers, your priorities lay in creating a broader palate of sound, representing the different sections of a hypothetical orchestra. There’s a difference in sound
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Mixed Voices, a vocal ensemble from Geretsried, Germany, will visit New Delhi in November 2016. In collaboration with Delhi’s most well-known choir, The Capital City Minstrels, this Bavarian choir will perform in the capital at the India International Centre and the German Embassy on November 2nd and 3rd, 2016.
Reviews
Opening Concert at the Royal Opera House Mumbai | 21st October 2016 At the hundred plus year old ROH Mumbai, there was an air of anticipation. This was not the normal recital at the NCPA but an event to go down in history. The ROH was open to public in the
Features
Gauging the milieu An ethnomusicologist and a music educator, Natalie Sarrazin, is currently teaching at the York State University of New York in Brockport. During her second visit to India, she was interested to study the impact of popular music amongst the teenagers in Indian schools. She explored the ground
Throwback Thursday
Some of my earliest memories are of listening to records of the Philadelphia Orchestra as a little girl, sitting by my father’s side. Learning to sing and play the piano was assumed to be a basic part of our upbringing in the Helms Family. My father, Eric Daniel Helms,
Travel Diaries
I have been living away from the US for 6 years now, so it is always a pleasure to return back there to perform, and to see old friends and music colleagues. Here are some photos from my tour in May and June – I performed several solo recitals, and two
Reviews
Once a year, perhaps twice a year, one might get to a concert in London that goes down as a life-long memory of something extraordinary. The performance on the 29th September, 2016 at London’s Royal Festival Hall by the Philharmonia Orchestra of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex had precisely that
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Cassia Avenue at Rajokri, New Delhi is not a common route for me. I reached way ahead of the scheduled concert time. Ambassador Joao da Camara and his wife Raquel Pereira da Camara asked me to wait at the drawing cum waiting room. The musicians would arrive shortly, they told
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On the 20th of September 2016, 7 instrumentalists, an Odissi dancer and 8 Indian singers set off for France. They joined the vocal soloists and instrumentalists of Akadêmia in a series of performances of the opera Orfeo, Crossing the Ganges. Three years have passed since the premiere of the opera,
Reviews
A watershed period, the 10th anniversary performances of the world famous Symphony Orchestra of India. Beg, borrow or buy tickets for the remainder two concerts at the iconic new opera house in Mumbai – the Jamshed Bhabha theatre. This theatre is not to be confused with the Royal Bombay Opera House,
Music Education
Keys of Change aims to advance the lives of children and young people around the world through musical education and access to live classical music performances. I set up the charity in early 2011 and work with three other trustees, all involved in music and/or education, and a growing
Travel Diaries
The concert series SimplySchubert was born during a chilly February-evening in Bangalore, where we just were preparing for the first ever performance of our a cappella programme with The Bangalore Men. I have always been very drawn to the music of Schubert, having sung many of his immortal lieder, but