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In the mid-19th century, a great many French musicians were forced to leave their homeland and seek their fortunes elsewhere, sometimes far from Europe. Many of these were refugees from the events of the Third French Revolution of 1848, which ended the Restoration of the French Monarchy and began the
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In the introduction to the book, Opera Buffa in Mozart’s Vienna (1997), Mary Hunter and James Webster write that ‘Opera Buffa’ fell between art and entertainment. Cutting across contemporary topics and characters, it was open to a variety of aesthetic strands. It always had one foot in the contemporary
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Gauging the milieu An ethnomusicologist and a music educator, Natalie Sarrazin, is currently teaching at the York State University of New York in Brockport. During her second visit to India, she was interested to study the impact of popular music amongst the teenagers in Indian schools. She explored the ground
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Cassia Avenue at Rajokri, New Delhi is not a common route for me. I reached way ahead of the scheduled concert time. Ambassador Joao da Camara and his wife Raquel Pereira da Camara asked me to wait at the drawing cum waiting room. The musicians would arrive shortly, they told
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This September, the Symphony Orchestra of India, India’s only professional orchestra, is ten years old and will present a special anniversary season of canonic orchestral works at the orchestra’s home, the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) on the southern tip of Mumbai. Mumbai has always been
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The revered title of “Young Steinway Artist” offers to young pianists the opportunity to formally affiliate with Steinway & Sons at an early point in their musical careers. Young Steinway Artists are considered part of the Steinway Family, a worldwide community including legendary artists such as Vladimir Horowitz and Martha
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James Gaffigan, Chief conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, looks ahead with a firm sense of history intact. By Neha M Lucerne is home to more than just Lake Lucerne and stunning mountainous views: the central Switzerland town also has a rich history of classical music, and is perhaps best
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I am en route to beautiful Vermont for a production of Verdi’s opera Macbeth in which I’ll be singing the role of Macduff and presenting a master class for the young artists who will be participating in the Opera Company of Middlebury’s Young Artist Program. Music master
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This year, after the Jaipur Literature Festival, we had the opportunity to speak with Mr Sanjoy Roy, the Managing Director of Teamwork Arts on a variety of topics related to the arts, their impact across the world, especially in India, and get an insight into what we could perhaps do
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In our infancy we are told fairy tales, and these stories retain a great power over us throughout our lives. In many ways the tenets of fairy tales and folk legends are the characteristics of all great music, because all great pieces are fundamentally stories. Calvino writes that in folk
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It is quite clear that – at least at certain levels – we live in a globalised world. New technologies developed over the last years in the fields of transportation and digital communication are allowing us now to travel and access knowledge with remarkable ease and speed. Among other advantages, the access
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As I travel and work throughout mainland Western Europe I find that there is a real love and understanding for music, which is developed and cultivated from birth. For example, a lot of my work at the moment is in Italy where typically children grow up familiar with the opera