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On a hot afternoon on Good Friday in Goa, when the streets were deserted and the shops shuttered, I sat in what used to be an old mint and listened with rapt attention to Luis’ story. A story about how music can change lives. “I remember as a child, going
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Please share your background with us. I am from the Netherlands where I pursued my violin studies. Then I went on to university to study mathematics. I worked in the field of mathematics between 1981 and 1995, but then fully returned to the music world. In between, I have always
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Born and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden, singing has always been an integral part of my life. Having sung in the Gothenburg Boys’ Choir for 17 years, studied music theory and music history at the Conservatory of Gothenburg and singing for Prof. Gunnar Forshufvud and Maria Forsström, it was natural to
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Setting the Stage In Anna E Nekola and Tom Wagner Edited Congregational Music- Making and Community in a Mediated Age, Andrew Mall writes on the Annual Christian Music and Arts Festival, aka the Cornerstone Festival in the popular vocabulary, which was held in the month of July at rural Western
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A Conductor should be a many faceted person with a wide artistic and human hinterland. Waving arms around is merely the visible thing people see, and even there, there are no real rules, only some basics. Impeccable technique doesn’t necessarily produce great performances, and less conventional methods can be
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It was 3pm on a cool day in the overgrown village/small town of Talegaon Dabhade near Pune I was returning from school in Dehu Road, about 15 kms away. I had walked 2 kms from the railway station through Talegaon town and up the hill to my grandparents’ farm.
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My father was a very successful person and an exceptional human being. In order to deserve his love, I thought I had to be successful too, so, as a child, I was very eager with my studies, and later became a dedicated scholar. I started learning Ancient Greek and Latin,
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The flight to Jaipur was a literary affair. There were more books than passengers, more intense conversations than crying babies, and a general buzz of excitement that formed a counterpoint to the engine noise. Ruskin Bond sat towards the fore of the cabin, regaling his fortunate row-mates with some story
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Maya Azucena suddenly found herself surrounded. After playing to a packed house at a local women’s college, over a hundred members of the audience flocked to the stage, all hoping to snap a selfie with the American soul singer. Maya had spent the previous hour singing songs inspired by
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Please share your background with us. I was born and raised in Adelaide, Australia as second child of five. My parents were both mathematicians who met while doing doctorate studies at Caltech and worked at Flinders University in Adelaide. My father was born and raised in Australia and my mother
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American composer John Adams chose the theme of his latest opera, A Flowering Tree, well. It premiered in Vienna in 2006 and has been revived a few times already—most recently in Paris in May 2014, newly staged by Hindi film director Vishal Bhardwaj, with marvellous costumes by Gunjan Arora
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What are your thoughts on Western classical music and fusion? I don’t like the Indian and Western comparisons, but the one thing I do like to take note of is that in the West, there is a space created for every genre thereby allowing it to exist on its