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The National Theatre announces All Kinds of Limbo XR, an immersive holographic performance to be experienced simultaneously across the world, as part of a major new partnership with Microsoft The National Theatre has announced All Kinds of Limbo XR, which, for the first time, will allow audiences worldwide to experience
Know Your Composer
In all, the remarkable collection of Schubert’s Lieder transcriptions by Franz Liszt totalled 58 songs. Liszt first handed twelve of these piano transcriptions to a Viennese publisher in 1838 and his concluding efforts emerged 10 years later in 1848. It is indeed interesting that Liszt spent an entire decade
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We never imagined the day would come when we would have to pen an obituary for one of our own team members. Her passing away is still to sink in. Vandana’s association with BSM began in the 90s when she joined Victor Abraham’s choir. But it was only
Interviews
Salzburg Festival: Ms. Bartoli, so many composers and authors set their works in Seville, despite never having been there. You have dedicated the 2022 Whitsun Festival to this city in which 153 operas are set. What makes Seville special to you? Cecilia Bartoli: First and foremost, Seville is a city
Know Your Composer
In the good old pre-pandemic days (remember them?), we at Child’s Play would have been resting during the festive season after all the hard work put into our annual Christmas concert earlier in the month of December. One of those concerts featured an arrangement for strings of ‘Silvesterlied’ or
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For hundreds of years, a seemingly unsolvable puzzle has perplexed music theorists: How can a musician play music using pure intonation, based on the harmonics of a vibrating string, while at the same time transpose chords and scales into any key the composer may wish to use? Therein lies the
Music Education
ON Stage brings you edited excerpts from the NCPA Quarterly Journal, an unsurpassed literary archive that ran from 1972 to 1988 and featured authoritative and wide-ranging articles. In the concluding part, scholar, curator and Indophile Robert J. Del Bonta discusses the influence of Indian myths and legends on European cultural
Music Education
If you’re a Suzuki student or parent, you’ll at once have a specific tune playing in your head on reading the title of this piece. It turns up pretty soon in Book 1 of the Suzuki violin (and viola, cello, and I imagine other instruments too) method, the
Throwback Thursday
To commemorate 15 years of the Symphony Orchestra of India, four regular concertgoers at the NCPA look back at some of their favourite performances and fond memories of India’s first and only professional orchestra. Ever since it was set up in 2006 by NCPA Chairman Mr. Khushroo N. Suntook
Music Education
“Tis the season indeed for a one-horse open sleigh. The tintinnabulation of that particular piece of merry music follows one around as pervasively as the aroma of plum cake and stollen. Christmas is a time of sugar and spice and all things nice; one of the nicest being the vast
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On December 3rd and 4th, the CommonTime.online artist community held its first annual International Artist Festival. Ten artists from around the world hosted more than 10 hours of online interactive workshops and livestream performances. When offering an online Artist Festival for the first time, there are many concerns for
Music Education
ON Stage brings you edited excerpts from the NCPA Quarterly Journal, an unsurpassed literary archive that ran from 1972 to 1988 and featured authoritative and wide-ranging articles. In the second part, scholar, curator and Indophile Robert J. Del Bonta discusses the West’s understanding of India’s heritage and traditions,