A reflective exploration of Christmas music that resists spectacle, tracing a quieter tradition of sacred listening where stillness, restraint, and inward attention reveal the season’s deeper meanings.
Classical music need not be intimidating. This guide shows how to build your first playlist by focusing on mood, flow and listening pleasure rather than history, helping newcomers explore with confidence and curiosity.
Each December, Bach and Handel return to concert halls and churches worldwide. This essay explores why their sacred music still defines Christmas, through theology, tradition, institutional practice and the listening habits of modern audiences.
Music begins before the first note. From vibrating air to emotional memory, hearing transforms physics into feeling, revealing why musicians, listeners, and technology shape sound as an active, deeply human experience of music perception itself.
There is something instantly engaging about a plucked note. It arrives clearly, speaks directly, and then disappears, leaving a small pocket of silence behind. In chamber music, where every sound is exposed, this kind of clarity can feel especially powerful.
Classical music has evolved through four major periods, each with its own style, sound and artistic purpose. Understanding the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern eras helps listeners recognise musical language and appreciate how composers shaped this rich tradition.
On the first death anniversary of tabla maestro Zakir Hussain, the members of Shakti reunite to honour his legacy. Through memories, music and a shared history of innovation, they recount the extraordinary journey that shaped Indo-jazz fusion.
Ahead of the India premiere of his acclaimed ballet, a conversation with choreographer Boris Eifman on his artistic practice and the journey it has taken across continents.
Travelling through Austria and Germany, I encountered three of Verdi’s middle-period operas—Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La Traviata—works that reveal why his focus on individual passion, not grand politics, still grips audiences today worldwide across generations.
Veteran conductor Noel Edison reflects on Timothy Corlis’s spiritually charged choral music, the making of ‘Immortality’, and why commissioning and recording contemporary Canadian composers remains central to his artistic mission.
Antonín Dvořák’s music blends lyrical melody, folk-inspired rhythms, and classical clarity. His symphonies, chamber works, and sacred music reveal a composer of remarkable warmth, craftsmanship, and national identity whose influence continues to resonate worldwide.
From its early origins in the clavichord and harpsichord to the powerful modern concert grand, the piano’s evolution reflects changing musical tastes, technological innovation, and the expressive ambitions of composers and performers across centuries.
Music Education
A well chosen instrument case is more than a box. It protects wood from heat, shocks, and seasonal swings, supports your daily routine, and keeps your violin ready for rehearsal, travel, and the demands of orchestral life.
Music Education
Sight reading is a foundational skill that shapes every aspect of musicianship. It builds fluency, confidence, and versatility, helping musicians learn repertoire faster, perform more securely, and thrive in ensemble and professional settings.
Interviews
Pianist Vijay Venkatesh reflects on the spiritual discipline behind Mozart’s music, his new Naxos recordings, and how exploring the composer’s humanity has shaped his own search for purity of sound and artistic stillness.
Know Your Composer
Beethoven is often portrayed as the archetypal mad genius, tormented into brilliance by instability and suffering. But was he truly insane, or has Romantic mythology obscured the real story of resilience and discipline?
News
Trinity Laban and Shiv Nadar University unveil Satyam Kalon, a transformative global arts initiative uniting leading institutions across three continents to foster interdisciplinary creation, transcultural research and new creative languages rooted in the ideals of truth and beauty.
Know Your Composer
George Gershwin and Arnold Schoenberg formed one of music history’s most unexpected friendships. Their bond in 1930s Los Angeles bridged classical modernism and American jazz, revealing how mutual respect can transcend genre, culture, and artistic philosophy.
Music Technology
Compression controls the dynamic range of music and shapes tone, punch and clarity. This beginner friendly guide explains how compressors work, what each control does and how to apply compression effectively in real world mixing situations.
Music Education
A clear and practical guide to designing a thoughtful classical music curriculum that balances technique, repertoire, musicianship and creativity, helping educators build structured pathways that inspire confident, curious and well rounded young musicians.
Music Education
Teaching rhythm and meter in the classroom builds more than musical skill. It nurtures coordination, creativity, and empathy, helping students connect movement, listening, and expression through practical, cultural, and interdisciplinary approaches to rhythm education.
Music Education
Tracing jazz from its blues roots to the brilliance of bebop, this article explores how the genre evolved through innovation, rhythm, and improvisation to become one of the twentieth century’s greatest musical legacies.
When you sign up for a painting, pottery, or writing class, you probably expect to learn how to mix colors, throw a pot, or structure a compelling sentence. And you will! That's the core of the experience. But what most people don’t realize is that a creative
Know Your Composer
Schubert transformed poetry into music, elevating the German Lied to an art form of deep emotional and psychological resonance. His songs unite word and melody in timeless intimacy, where voice and piano speak as equals.