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London’s Creative Conservatoire is delighted to announce the new Udmi Devi Scholarships, which will enable talented young performers born and educated in India to train at Trinity Laban from September 2020. The gift of £100,000 has been made in the name of the anonymous benefactor’s grandmother, the
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To commemorate 50 years of creating, curating and nurturing the performing arts, the NCPA is celebrating the philosophy of ‘adding art’ in daily life through its ADD ART Festival. In other words, it is doing what it has always done – only bigger, better and in a way that is completely
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Of Indian origin, now based in San Francisco, California, USA, acclaimed International Concert Artist, Vocal Coach & Consultant, Deirdre Lobo comes from an extremely artistic family with her mother Celia Lobo, India’s only living Opera Diva, her sister Carolyn Vincent an accomplished Speaker and Community Enthusiast in Australia, and
Throwback Thursday
In the 50th year of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI) featured masterworks of the 17th and 18th centuries. The SOI Autumn 2019 Season opened with two concerti for violin, piano, and strings, performed by SOI’s Music Director Marat Bisengaliev and
Know Your Composer
His seven-opera cycle, “Licht,” shows that he was not only a master of far-out spectacle but also a composer of impeccable craft. In 1991, Karlheinz Stockhausen, the mystical showman of the musical avant-garde, was commissioned to write a string quartet for the Salzburg Festival. Being Stockhausen, he offered up the
Reviews
Written in 1791 the last year of Mozart’s life La Clemenza di Tito is based on Metastasio’s pre-dated by 50 years’ libretto (adapted by Caterino Mazzolà). It is less well known than the four earlier Mozart operas (the three da ponte comedies and the singspiel Die Zauberflöte). It
Interviews
This year, the Capital City Minstrels (CCM) go silver, with twenty-five years of music-making under their belt. From small beginnings, when a diverse, but like-minded group of people got together to sing, CCM has grown impressively in stature, performing on platforms not only away from their home base of New
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I spend many months of each year giving workshops and masterclasses throughout India when I really should be practising or giving concerts. Why? The answer is fairly straightforward. As far as I’m aware, India has the fewest Western classical music graduates of any country with a population of more
Meet the Maestro
The new resident conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of India wants to ask you if he’s made a mistake. By Mikel Toms Not long ago, I came across a drawing on a well-known social media site. “THE CHICKEN GAME!” it trumpeted. My curiosity was piqued. The rules of the
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My first night during this brief autumnal sojourn in Vienna, city of dreams was simply a delight. Boasting four venues for opera (among ballet, musicals and operetta) the legendary Staatsoper is by far and away one of the great opera houses of the world. Indeed this year it celebrates its
Throwback Thursday
A nostalgic look back at the festival of music, dance and drama that was held immediately after the inauguration of the Tata Theatre. A nine-day festival of music, dance and drama was organised from 11th October, 1980 to mark the inauguration of the Tata Theatre. Immediately after the formal inauguration,
Music Education
There’s a danger if every public decision is made by the majority for the majority. There’s a very famous phrase, “the tyranny of the majority,” that was introduced into political discourse by two near contemporaries in the nineteenth century. Alexis de Tocqueville, the famous French writer who wrote