The Performing Arts Dispatch: Hungarian State Opera
In 1873, when the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, Franz Joseph I, approved the construction of the Hungarian...
Music for eye as well as ear
My son’s piano lessons afford me an opportunity to look at piano sheet music up close. Piano scores seem to have...
From Hungary, With Love
As Johann Strauss’s beloved opera Die Fledermaus comes to the NCPA this month, Dr. Virág Főző, Deputy General Director of the Hungarian State Opera, talks to Aishwarya Bodke about artistic collaboration across borders. At an opera conference in Beijing about...
Pēteris Vasks’ “The Fruit Of Silence”: VOCES8
The Latvian composer, Pēteris Vasks (b. 1946), began as “a young, angry and avant-garde” modernist. Over time, his music evolved...
“We are building over a million-square-foot cultural centre…” – Kiran Nadar: In Conversation
Kiran Nadar is the Chairperson of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and a Trustee of the Shiv Nadar Foundation....
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Makes Carnegie Hall Debut with Conductor Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop leads the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra in its Carnegie Hall debut on Friday, October 14 at 8:00 p.m., a program that includes Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade and works by illustrious 20th-century Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos: his Preludio from Bachianas brasileiras...
‘Arts and Ideals: President John F. Kennedy’ summons a brief shining moment when the arts captured America’s imagination
The mandate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, which has just concluded the...
The Joy of Learning to Play Music, Part III
A four-part series of reflections on the pleasures and paradoxes of learning to sing or play an instrument. For parents,...
