Music Education
Why touring is important, and why the mere thought of it drives management mad. By Zane Dalal Orchestras, as we know them today, started out as small ensembles, joined to some illustrious house or under the patronage of a court. The more important the court, the bigger and better the
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Yo-Yo Ma remains quite easily one of the top five string players in the world and quite possibly the last surviving heavy-weight cellist of his generation. With the recent announcement of Lynn Harrell’s death, Yo-Yo Ma has no competitors alive. Put quite plainly he is the best. Mumbaikars turned
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The 17th edition of Monte Music Festival, presented by Fundação Oriente and Cidade de Goa, will be held from the 1st to the 3rd of February 2019 at the Chapel of Our Lady of Mount, Old Goa. With its first edition in 2002, after the restoration of the
Interviews
The Olga and Jules Craen Foundation's (OJCF) prestigious Young Musician of the Year (YMOY) award has been won, for the year 2019, by two teenage musicians: pianist Anuvrat Choudhary and violinist R. Samyuktha. They will make their OJCF debut performance in Mumbai on January 21, sharing the stage
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Acclaimed British conductor Martyn Brabbins is all praise for the Symphony Orchestra of India, the receptive Indian audience and the city of Mumbai. Beverly Pereira speaks to him ahead of his second performance with the homegrown ensemble at the NCPA, Mumbai. It has been a busy period for Martyn Brabbins,
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Music for Life International continues its decade-long tradition of global humanitarian concerts with Beethoven for The Rohingya, a benefit concert featuring Beethoven’s monumental Ninth Symphony, presented in the Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall on Monday, January 28, 2019. Beethoven for The Rohingya is an urgent call to
Music Education
If we put the last century’s notions of “old” and “new” in a broader historic perspective, it becomes clear how short-sighted these notions were and how wrong it was to give them an aura of absoluteness, since these notions are, by their very nature, relative and flexible, and dependent
Features
This year, as the NCPA turns 50, we take a look at how a dream became a thriving reality. By Anil Dharker “One day, perhaps, the NCPA’s work may be more important for the country than the work of the steel company.” These were JRD Tata’s words to
Music Education
Singers, how much do you love auditions? I know you’re all troopers, experts at the art of wowing someone in two arias or less. It’s really all about making your way through the huge list of Things You Can’t Control. Often, one of those things is the
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I’m very excited about delivering Sing for Pleasure’s first ever training event in India; the beneficial effects of what we teach are likely to have an impact on possibly thousands of children and the knock-on effects of that will speak for themselves. Personally, to be able to contribute
Interviews
“Come sit in my lieder class. Just sit and listen to the senior students,” an opportunity thrown and grabbed by Patricia Rozario at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, by her German lieder tutor. This was a golden chance for the soprano from Bombay who wanted to
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Everyone assumed I was meant to do extraordinary things. But it seemed like I was the only one who could see the human inside of me. I faced my own mortality recently and it made me draw up a deadline and what I needed to achieve. As I had said