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I have attended so many classical music concerts, from the Boston Symphony Orchestra to the Wiener Philharmoniker. But every time I step into a concert hall and listen to the musicians play the eagerly awaited first note, I am moved. I feel like I had forgotten what it is like
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There are some concerts that take listeners through more than just their own lives, to the universality of all lives lived. Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhaus Orchestra’s extremely intense performance of Mahler’s 3rd Symphony had precisely this effect, one which was fully in consonance with its composer’s
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Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhaus Orchestra’s concert of Wagner (Overture to Tannhauser and Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde) and Bruckner (3rd Symphony) at the Gewandhaus, Leipzig, provided as much food for thought as it did of emotion. The emotional intensity of their performance of the Wagner was
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The Capital City Minstrels, a 22 year old Delhi based choir, have been crooning to audiences across cities and countries for quite some time. They have had a variety of choir conductors. Without a doubt, they have emerged as a ‘versatile and dynamic choir’ as expressed in their press note.
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It is unusual for an operatic production to be equally riveting at a visual and an aural level: typically one wins out, and one makes do with the lesser other. This phenomenon was taken to an extreme in the current production of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde at the Theatre
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On 30th of April, 2016, the basement hall at Instituto Cervantes New Delhi was full house. It was the second and final show of Pablo Luna Carné’s renowned Zarzuela, El Niño Judío (The Jewish Boy), brought to life by the European Union Delegation, Neemrana Music Foundation and a small
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Evolution of Music is a complicated concept to demonstrate. It attempts to focus on the genres and the personalities that resonate with the audience at a given moment in time. It sheds light on the timelessness captured in the music through the assessment of music connoisseurs, music critics, radio and
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In the book, Music Divided- Bartók’s Legacy in the Cold War Culture, Danielle Fosler Lussier discusses Béla Bartók’s music, one of the contemporary musicians during Emmerich Kálmán’s time, and how it played out in different milieus. Although, he wasn’t an Operetta composer, being one of the
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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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In my many years of concert going, I have yet to come across a recital that works as well as Pallavi Mahidhara’s written to Mumbai on 8th December 2015. She has everything that her huge and much exalted bio-data promises and even more hints for the future. I would
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Bombay has an earnest but limited audience for Western classical music – unless the best known ambassador for it comes to the city. When Zubin Mehta stages here, he has a “bass” which is wider than the familiar, oft-seen music lovers and the audience “trebles” in numbers. October 26th, 2015 was
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Mahler’s one-movement Piano Quartet in A Minor was composed during Mahler’s days as a student in 1876. In this piece, especially in the very beginning, there was this strong,familiar flavour of Metamorphosis by Philip Glass. I won’t be surprised if Glass was inspired by Mahler’s