Darwin Leonard Prakash: The Young Indian Opera Prodigy
The Summer of 2014 proved to be a wholly exciting and life changing time for Darwin Leonard Prakash, a young...
The Philharmonia Experience
The Philharmonia Orchestra was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge. A self-governing orchestra since 1964, co-owned by its 80 members,...
A Year with The Bangalore Men
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,...
Remembering the 20th century theatre impresario who built Mumbai’s iconic Opera House
Maurice Bandmann’s story has nearly been lost to history. It was Bandmann, along with Jehangir Framji Karaka, a Parsi businessman...
Hitoshi Mochizuki, Managing Director – Yamaha Music India
Nikhil Sardana: What is the history of Yamaha Music? When did you first start operations in India and what products...
Maestro Roland Dyens – Through his ‘Lettres’
A few years back, one of my friends gave me a copy of Maestro Roland Dyens’s Lettres (Letters, published 2001). I had heard a few of his works before. To name a few, Tango en Skaï, Libra Sonatine and Hommage à...
Walking through soundscapes of the past
It can be difficult to hear the past we seek to visualise. Sound and music does not survive in the...
Scriabin Museum – Traditions and Innovations
“The A.N. Scriabin Memorial Museum closely keeps the atmosphere of the great Russian composer’s house. His music resounds here –...