Know Your Composer
How a reclusive Frenchman created some of the most radical, beautiful music of the modern era. Claude Debussy died a century ago, but his music has not grown old. Bound only lightly to the past, it floats in time. As it coalesces, bar by bar, it appears to be improvising
Interviews
The idiom proclaims, “Behind every great / successful man there stands a woman.” In this day of gender parity, the opposite is equally true. Mark Troop married to Patricia Rozario, is a case in point. Pianist, broadcaster and writer, Mark is founder of The Chamber Music Company, devoted to all types
Music Education
A look at how the SOI Music Academy is not only fostering musical excellence, but also shaping the future of young musicians, their careers and, inevitably, that of Western classical music in India. By Beverly Pereira The year 2019 represents a high point in the sustainability of Western classical music
Interviews
We take a closer look at some of the people who have been an integral part of the Symphony Orchestra of India. PRABHAT KISHORE, VIOLIN ON Stage: How did your career with the SOI begin? Prabhat Kishore: Our music director, Marat Bisengaliev, heard me performing at Taj Land’s End
Interviews
Pinchas Zukerman needs no introduction, but the sheer breadth and depth of his versatility and contribution to music, does bear recounting. His prodigious talent was recognised by legendary musicians Pablo Casals and Isaac Stern when he was a child in Tel Aviv. Sent to study at New York’s Juilliard
Interviews
The South Asian Symphony Orchestra’s debut performance in India, slated for April 26th, is a significant event, and not just for musical reasons. It has brought the power of music to bind, to heal, and to create a climate of peace and goodwill among nations of the region. Appropriately
News
Child’s Play (India) Foundation is a registered music education trust that seeks to instil positive values and provide social empowerment to India’s disadvantaged children through the teaching of classical music to the highest possible standard. It is largely inspired by the El Sistema music revolution in Latin America,
Reviews
There is no doubt that Maurizio Pollini at age 76 remains one of the world’s great piano virtuosos. This was manifestly proven in the March 12 sell-out concert in the international piano series here in the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London. Pollini has had a long
Features
On March 13, 2019, a 13-year-old pianist from India faced Kukkiwon, a 27-member adult Olympic-level crack taekwondo team from South Korea in a clash for the title of “The World’s Best.” The Koreans dazzled with a stunning display of martial arts. But the little kid on the piano won.
News
The Madras Musical Association (MMA) Choir and Orchestra will present one of the greatest and most loved oratorios of all time, George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” on Sunday, March 31, 2019, at The Museum Theatre, Egmore. The MMA Choir will present a selection of pieces including choruses and solos in
Reviews
Partnerships between composer and librettist are an essential complexity in the composition of successful opera. Some examples in its history include Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, Verdi and Arrigo Boito, Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal and of course Gilbert and Sullivan. The pairing of Mozart and his Italian librettist produced
Features
Zane Dalal traces the origin of the NCPA in a familiar story that finds its voice again, in our fiftieth anniversary celebrations. Half a century is a milestone by any reckoning. 50 years ago – in 1969 – Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon in that ’giant