About a Little Music School in Pohkseh, Shillong
Kong Pauline Warjri is a pianist, singer, songwriter, arranger, composer and music educator, and the conductor-founder of two choirs –...
Sing like everyone’s watching
It’s a sunny afternoon in Delhi and I am wandering around the Qutub Minar with my cousin sister, who asks...
The Art of Opera
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...
Evenings at the Barbican Centre
The London Symphony Orchestra was the first British orchestra, co-owned by its players. It also was the first British orchestra...
Recollections: Bill Evans
The first time I ever heard the jazz pianist Bill Evans (1929-1980) was on his duet recording of All Across the...
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 Indian boy living in New Delhi who has a fascination with the human voice and the Western idiom of singing...
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...