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IDAGIO becomes one of the first free apps made available to Apple Watch users globally. Users can enjoy classical music through the independent Apple Watch app. Leading streaming service for classical music, IDAGIO, is the first classical music streaming service offering an independent Apple Watch app. The independent IDAGIO Apple
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The theme for this year’s Con Brio Festival 2019 was “More Schumania: Celebrating women with Clara”. The festival showcased the works of female composers through the ages with one work by Clara Schumann each day of the festival to celebrate her bicentennial birth year. I was entrusted the task
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Zane Dalal revisits the music, the drama and the pervasive social message that has become emblematic of the music of Richard Wagner. Much has been written on the life and work of composer Richard Wagner, and even more on his famous tetralogy of operas Der Ring des Nibelungen. There is
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The Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka (SOSL) returns to its regular concert schedule this September, with a concert dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives in the Easter attacks, and in aid of those who live in the aftermath. “We Remember” takes place at the Lionel Wendt
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The last Maharaja of Mysore was a great patron and scholar of, among many other things, Western classical music. Here, we present snapshots from performances by the SOI Chamber Orchestra, presented in Mysore and Bengaluru in his honour. By Richard Nowell On the occasion of the birth centenary of HRH
Music Education
If you liked Connection Lost (The Tinder Opera), you’ll love the latest collaboration between composer/tenor Scott Joiner and writer/director Adam Taylor. Something Blue: The Bachelor Opera is another misguided love story, unpacking everything that’s totally bizarre about reality dating & marriage shows. Joiner sings the role
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A familiar buzz is back at the NCPA ahead of the opening of the Autumn 2019 Season of the SOI. The programme will be especially gratifying as two internationally renowned soloists and a legendary conductor will return to perform with the Symphony Orchestra of India. By Beverly Pereira It is
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The FREE practice tracking app from ABRSM. Music Case helps students understand the progress they are making over time, increasing their motivation to keep learning. 83% of students say that Music Case is an effective tool to improve their practice and progress. With Music Case students can… * Track their practice
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The Symphony Orchestra of India is primed to give Mumbai audiences an exciting season of music this September – the first series of concerts on home turf after its successful tour of the United Kingdom this February. Zane Dalal provides an overview of the repertoire – more exciting, ambitious and wide-ranging than
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Albert Schweitzer believed that there were only two means of refuge from the miseries of life- music and cats. What better place to test this claim than the charming Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai, which hosts the Symphony Orchestra of India on the second Monday of every month, and incidentally, abounds
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Recitals in front of a live audience have always been an inspiration for students to hone their performance skills and exhibit their musicianship. On the 10th of August, students of Fauzia Marikar, displayed their love for Western classical music. Amidst the familiar comfort of mostly family and friends the students
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He was falsely cast as Mozart’s murderer and music’s sorest loser. Now he’s getting a fresh hearing. On a chilly, wet day in late November, I visited the Central Cemetery, in Vienna, where several of the most familiar figures in musical history lie buried. In a musicians’