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I loved music since I was a kid. I lived my childhood in a small city of Pakistan, Quetta, in Hazara Town. There, I was busy playing and studying in a small public school. I had a few friends. In that place, I used to sing every day. It was
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Any music-making operates within a context, and it is important to identify the specific context, leading to the visibly active presence of the Western classical guitar in India today. The Pune Guitar Society was founded in March 2015. It is really the culmination of considerable ideation, discussions, and playing and
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Prelude Music lies deep within his bones. It pulses in each of his cells, tingles down his nerves, races through his veins. It shapes his very breath, his heart, his soul, and it chimes and resounds in every syllable of his name. Ebony and Ivory in Mumbai September 10, 2016
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Ravi Shankar’s opera Sukanya receives its world premier with a four city UK tour in May 2017. The work is a collaboration between the Royal Opera House of Covent Garden and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. It takes as its subject a story from the Mahabharata which tells the tale
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As a visitor to India, locals have told me that sometimes things don’t appear on digital maps where it seems they should, or sometimes at all. Yet, when asking auto drivers if they could take me to Delhi School of Music, “near the US Embassy”, the typical response was
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Born and raised in the small town of Shillong, Meghalaya, I wasn’t blessed with the easiest access to classical music. I was busy ‘not singing’ in my earlier days, having studied at St. Edmunds School and College, I only discovered my singing talent later in my early twenties. Having
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When we began our music charity for disadvantaged children Child’s Play India Foundation (www.childsplayindia.org), we made an appeal to the community to donate unused musical instruments to us. Seven years on, this is not as big a crunch as the need for more teachers to allow us
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It’s a sunny afternoon in Delhi and I am wandering around the Qutub Minar with my cousin sister, who asks me about the origins of the minaret. Before I can answer, a confident voice pipes in and prattles off the relevant facts and figures. The origin of said voice
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The Summer of 2014 proved to be a wholly exciting and life changing time for Darwin Leonard Prakash, a young Indian boy living in New Delhi who has a fascination with the human voice and the Western idiom of singing classical music as he heard from TV and radio. Dr
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“The A.N. Scriabin Memorial Museum closely keeps the atmosphere of the great Russian composer’s house. His music resounds here – performed by great the musicians; a vast amount of scientific work is conducted. History at the Museum is naturally connected with the contemporary cultural life of Moscow thanks to
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If the guitar had a patron saint or two, Francisco Tarrega would surely be one of them (Antonio Torres the other, perhaps?). More of us would remember him a lot better for a lot more than we do now, and that’s saying something, considering that a number of his
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Sometimes even with the best possible performers, the recipe just doesn’t work, each artiste preferring to stick to their own comfortable perfection. And at no moment do they seem to want to share with either their colleagues or their audience the grand adventure that is music. But when a