Sing for Pleasure at Gandhi Ashram School, Kalimpong
I’m very excited about delivering Sing for Pleasure’s first ever training event in India; the beneficial effects of what we...
THE SOPRANO SOARS
“Come sit in my lieder class. Just sit and listen to the senior students,” an opportunity thrown and grabbed by...
J’ai Fame
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...
Can we save classical music?
The current state of classical concerts would be unrecognizable, even enraging, to the performers and audiences of the past centuries....
AND THE CHAMBER FESTIVAL PLAYS: ARTIE’S NOVEMBER 2018
DAY ONE Over two evenings in the sultry month of November the NCPA presented high quality and substantial chamber music....
NERDING OUT: WHY YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY CARE WHAT KEY YOUR ARIA IS IN
Singers, how closely do you pay attention to the key signature of the arias you sing? You know how to read music, of course – but that’s not why I ask. Turns out, there can be a fascinating dramatic significance...
Beethoven’s magnum opus
A brief history of the master’s most spectacular work: Symphony No 9. By Manohar Parnerkar Beethoven’s most celebrated work, Symphony...
CLASSICAL MODERNITY
Sometimes one hears the critique that classical music is no longer compatible with modernity. What “modernity” is supposed to mean...