Music is one of the few passions shared by most of humanity. While we all prefer different musical genres and artists, music remains a crucial part of life. Many people can be found humming their favorite tunes or beats while showering or enjoying karaoke sessions; others attend concerts featuring their
Know Your Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) seems to sneak up on me in the unlikeliest of places. I‘m not much of a Netflixer, and tend to watch episodes of series very erratically, often with weeks to months in between. One such series is ‘Outlander’, based on the eponymous historical fiction novel
Throwback Thursday
A chance encounter can sometimes become a memory one preserves for a lifetime. In 1982, on his way to America, Dr. Cavas Bilimoria—the NCPA physician and an amateur violinist with a deep adoration and sound knowledge of Western classical music—had a brief sojourn in Amsterdam. A spontaneous walk
Know Your Composer
Take a moment and consider the most evocative excerpts from John Williams’ Star Wars film scores, the hypnotic, meditative tones of electronic ambient music, and the late twentieth century pop song’s formulaic concluding “fade out.” It could be argued that all were vaguely anticipated by Gustav Holst’s seven-movement
Music Education
Film director Martin Scorsese commented in 2005, “If Caravaggio were alive today he would have loved the cinema; his paintings take a cinematic approach… He painted religious subject matter but the models were obviously people from the streets; he had prostitutes playing saints. There’s something in Caravaggio that shows
A few decades ago, the so-called Mozart Effect was all the rage, and classical music experienced one its most spectacular revivals, with parents across the country rushing to buy Mozart music to help their children become baby geniuses. Like all good things, the trend for classical accompaniment for childhood activities
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No, comedy is not superficial, says director Rolando Villazón, who is staging Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival. Rather, comedy illustrates our problems’ extremes. “A clown is a figure who always loses, he has no fourth wall, he plays directly with the audience,” says the
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The Teatro Real deeply mourns the loss of Teresa Berganza, one of the greatest singers of all time, on 13 May 2022. “As a token of affection and gratitude for all that we have received over so many years from Teresa Berganza, the Teatro Real has decided to dedicate this
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Queen’s I Want to Break Free, Think by Aretha Franklin and Rag ’n’ Bone Man’s Human are to join favourites by Mozart and Holst after being selected to help reinvigorate school music lessons across the UK. The tracks are amongst 200 featured in a landmark new classroom tool
Music Education
In so many ways, I envy this generation of children growing up, and wish I could be a child in this day and age along with them. When I was a student of the violin, my repertoire was restricted to what was available in the only music store in town,
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On the last weekend of March, the queen of suburbs was treated to two joyous evenings of music and dance as the National Centre for the Performing Arts took its initiative, NCPA@ThePark, to the Bandra Fort Amphitheatre. After the tremendous success of the first edition at the Cooperage Bandstand,
Music Technology
According to Statista, the forecast of digital music revenue by segment in the world from 2022 to 2025 is expected to grow as follows: in 2022 ($26 billion), 2023 ($28.9 billion), 2024 ($31.3 billion), and 2025 ($33.3 billion). The digitization of music is an interesting update that