News
The East West Music and Dance Encounter is back, bigger and better than before! In February 2017, The Bangalore School of Music will celebrate its 30th Anniversary and the 15th edition of the East-West Music and Dance Encounter (EWMD – 2017). Like all its predecessors, EWMD-2017, too will be
News
The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival is in its 18th year. Held during the second week of February each year, it is one of the largest and most popular multi-cultural festivals in the world, an icon of Mumbai’s heritage and culture. Programs range from Music, Dance, Cinema and Theatre
Music Education
In an interview with Eleanore Büning for FAZ, star soprano Anna Netrebko said of the teleprompter she used in Dresden to sing Elsa in Lohengrin, “Jetzt verrate ich Ihnen ein Geheimnis: Ich kann keinen deutschen Text memorieren.” (“Now I’ll tell you a secret: I cannot memorize any German text.
Interviews
Kong Pauline Warjri is a pianist, singer, songwriter, arranger, composer and music educator, and the conductor-founder of two choirs – Aroha Choir and the Aroha Children’s Choir. From one of my earliest encounters with her, I recall one of the narrations about what made her connect more deeply with
Features
It’s a sunny afternoon in Delhi and I am wandering around the Qutub Minar with my cousin sister, who asks me about the origins of the minaret. Before I can answer, a confident voice pipes in and prattles off the relevant facts and figures. The origin of said voice
Music Education
And why people love it to distraction. A series of personal recollections by Zane Dalal There is something absolutely riveting about the world of opera. Even if your connection with Western classical opera is limited, you might immediately notice that friends and acquaintances who profess to loving it, don’t
Reviews
The London Symphony Orchestra was the first British orchestra, co-owned by its players. It also was the first British orchestra to tour abroad (1906). The Education centre, LSO St. Luke’s inaugurated in the year 2003 continues to inspire all different kinds of music lovers. Resident Orchestra at the
Throwback Thursday
The first time I ever heard the jazz pianist Bill Evans (1929-1980) was on his duet recording of All Across the City, with the prominent jazz guitarist Jim Hall, from their 1969 album Intermodulations. This happened to be at the tail end of a cassette tape borrowed from my
Features
The Summer of 2014 proved to be a wholly exciting and life changing time for Darwin Leonard Prakash, a young Indian boy living in New Delhi who has a fascination with the human voice and the Western idiom of singing classical music as he heard from TV and radio. Dr
Reviews
The Philharmonia Orchestra was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge. A self-governing orchestra since 1964, co-owned by its 80 members, has its digital projects at the fore-front. It is aimed towards wooing audiences to a live orchestra experience outside the concert hall. 2008 onwards, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Travel Diaries
As 2016 leaves us and 2017 has just begun, I realise that it is now one year since we had our first rehearsal with The Bangalore Men – and what a year it has been! On 10th of January 2016, a group of nine eager singers, who had all sung with
Music Education
Maurice Bandmann’s story has nearly been lost to history. It was Bandmann, along with Jehangir Framji Karaka, a Parsi businessman and head of a firm of coal brokers, who built the Opera House in 1911. Once an integral character in the growth of theatre in India, Bandmann’s story