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British Council, the UK’s international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations has announced the India/UK Together, a Season of Culture, a celebration of the long-standing relationship between the UK and India. The Season of Culture that marks India’s 75th anniversary, has been officially launched by Barbara
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Strings of the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI), based at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai, travelled to Goa recently to conduct a week-long music camp organised by Child’s Play India Foundation (CPIF). From 8-14 May, 2022, three musicians of the SOI – Averell deSouza, Prabhat Kishore
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Enhancing the already expansive range of events on offer, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art brings you #WeekendsAtKNMA. On offer, the opportunity for audiences to immerse themselves in all kinds of art and activity. As part of this initiative, new and extensive programming has been planned to celebrate art and
Kids cram information while engaging in interests and social activities. Then those who go to university specialize in a subject and repeat the process. The student transforms into an adult, and the opportunity to make acquaintances and acquire new skills vanishes. Opportunities to improve are always available, and as people
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An accomplished conductor and music educator, he will oversee artistic direction of multiple SDYS programs serving 3,000+ students each year. Patel, 39, has spent the last 5 years as Associate Conductor of the Sun Valley Music Festival, the largest privately-funded, free-admission symphony in the United States. During his tenure
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
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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
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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
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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