Meet the Maestro
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.
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What are your thoughts on Western classical music and fusion? I don’t like the Indian and Western comparisons, but the one thing I do like to take note of is that in the West, there is a space created for every genre thereby allowing it to exist on its
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The thing about music is it needs to be played, and heard, and played some more. I went to Paris because I wanted to play. All through my life I learnt pieces from books, analysed harmonies, took exams and once in a while played for an audience. This is the
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The Anglia Ruskin academic department performed live data beamed back from the DSCOVR satellite. Two unique performances of the “Sound of the Earth” were staged in Austin, Texas, on 16th and 17th November 2015. Taking place in the NASA booth at the SC15 supercomputing conference, Dr Domenico Vicinanza from Anglia
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About two years ago, I was asked by Vidyun Singh, who heads the Programmes Division of the India Habitat Centre, if I would be interested in curating and programming a monthly series of screenings of operas at the newly-renovated Stein Auditorium, with its excellent new video projector and sound system.
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What were the highlights of your India tour? It would be very difficult to choose a specific moment as the entire trip was fantastic! I had such a wonderful time returning to Delhi, Pune, Mumbai and Bangalore. Each of the organisations that hosted and presented me were so enthusiastic and