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,
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Available in the United States and internationally on the Apple TV app, Carnegie Hall is excited to introduce Carnegie Hall+, a new premium subscription video on-demand channel (SVOD), curated by Carnegie Hall, that offers instant access to unforgettable performances by celebrated artists from renowned stages all around the world. Aligned
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In 2022 the Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, Cecilia Bartoli, focuses on Seville, which inspired an incomparable number of composers. There are said to be 153 operas set in and around Seville. It is a city which unites a unique mixture of proud ancient cultures which has generated
Know Your Composer
One day in 1979, the chief music critic at the San Francisco Examiner, Michael Walsh, who had the desk next to mine, sidled over and handed me the album of a new musical, Sweeney Todd. ‘It’s actually an opera’, he whispered conspiratorially, ‘but don’t tell anyone’. When I
Know Your Composer
Greatness will invariably recognise greatness! And Franz Liszt’s efforts and commitment on behalf of forgotten masterpieces set a powerful trend in the 19th century. As such it is hardly surprising that Franz Schubert occupied a central place in Liszt’s transcriptions and paraphrases. Schubert published his first major piano
Interviews
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of programmatic music? Symphonie Fantastique? Harlem Air Shaft? Tales from Topographic Oceans? Sven Helbig’s Skills, which will be released in February 2022 by BMG’s Modern Recordings imprint, is very much a part of this lineage.
How do you not deafen yourself with the sound of your own voice? If you’ve been within ten feet of an opera singer doing their thing, you can vouch for the fact that they can create a lot of decibels. Even when they’re not singing at their full
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The Supervisory Board of the Salzburg Festival has voted unanimously to appoint Kristina Hammer the new president of the Salzburg Festival. During the hearing of candidates applying for the position of president, the German/Swiss candidate with long-standing Salzburg connections convinced the Board. Therefore, Kristina Hammer will become the new
Music Education
ON Stage brings you excerpts from the NCPA Quarterly Journal, an unsurpassed literary archive that ran from 1972 to 1988 and featured authoritative and wide-ranging articles. The concluding part of a feature by musician and ethnomusicologist Ashok D. Ranade on categories of music talks about what demarcates popular music from
