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And why people love it to distraction. A series of personal recollections by Zane Dalal There is something absolutely riveting about the world of opera. Even if your connection with Western classical opera is limited, you might immediately notice that friends and acquaintances who profess to loving it, don’t
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Maurice Bandmann’s story has nearly been lost to history. It was Bandmann, along with Jehangir Framji Karaka, a Parsi businessman and head of a firm of coal brokers, who built the Opera House in 1911. Once an integral character in the growth of theatre in India, Bandmann’s story
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A few years back, one of my friends gave me a copy of Maestro Roland Dyens’s Lettres (Letters, published 2001). I had heard a few of his works before. To name a few, Tango en Skaï, Libra Sonatine and Hommage à Frank Zappa. Although I had tried my hand
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It can be difficult to hear the past we seek to visualise. Sound and music does not survive in the archaeological record. However, it is not impossible to interact with the soundscapes that once imbued past cultural landscapes. Archaeologists in this field generally have little direct evidence to work with
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Intermediate piano students are presented with many new opportunities and challenges as they progress into more sophisticated repertoire. The music they play evolves from single notes in each hand to counterpoint and chords. Learning to highlight individual notes in chords proves challenging for many of them, but understanding one element
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My first exposure to Leo Brouwer – the name and the music – happened sometime in 1981 when I heard the German guitarist Wolfgang Condin performing at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi. At that time, I had been a largely rock-preoccupied guitar player for a few years, with only a vague
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Concert installation for variable number of rooms, musicians and audience, interconnected through a Feedback Delay Network system (2016) Duration: 60-80 Minutes “Verschränkte Spielräume” – “Entangled Spaces” interconnects a variable number of musicians and rooms. Through the acoustic connections between the rooms and a feedback-delay network system, the musicians try to hear
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Pianists, when you’re playing an opera score, you’re more than a master of your instrument; you are problem-solving machines. You solve problems with un-ergonomic orchestral reductions, with meeting someone else’s tempo, and with turning 200-300 of your own pages. Simply put, playing opera scores is about keeping
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Most of us have heard music described as the universal language. I have heard this expression as long as I can remember and I have spent a good amount of effort trying to prove it to myself, trying to find complicated explanations for what I felt intuitively. I simultaneously struggled
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Pianists, when you’re playing orchestral reductions, it’s all a complicated system of smoke and mirrors. Rather than on getting every note under your fingers, your priorities lay in creating a broader palate of sound, representing the different sections of a hypothetical orchestra. There’s a difference in sound
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Keys of Change aims to advance the lives of children and young people around the world through musical education and access to live classical music performances. I set up the charity in early 2011 and work with three other trustees, all involved in music and/or education, and a growing
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The Past Our family moved from sunny Southern California to Bangalore in 1996, twenty years ago. Our plan was to help my wife’s parents for a few years with a Bible college they run, New Life College (www.newlifecollege.org). We started having weekend music in worship seminars and
