Know Your Composer
Haunting or bewitching are words that come to mind to the hundreds of thousands of those who have experienced Samuel Barber’s 1936 Adagio for Strings. Or the countless millions whose lives have been unwittingly changed by eight minutes of music of which they could not name composer or title.
Reviews
The year 2021 has drawn to a close. Many artists, even those at the pinnacle of their respective professions, have had to throw in the towel. All but a few pianists at the top of their game have been able to sustain themselves out of the pandemic. Even as I
They’re mean, mad, and even murderous: call it sexism, or call it a series of very loud Freudian slips, but the creators of opera have never been too kind to mothers. Still, Mother’s Day is here; despite the generally poor representation they have in our favourite operas, these
If you’re an aspiring pianist, you probably know how hard it is to establish a concrete fanbase for yourself and your music. With the music industry constantly undergoing changes, it can be hard to stay on people’s radar. To get your music on the charts, you need to
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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
