Music Education
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
Music Education
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
Throwback Thursday
Some of my earliest memories are of listening to records of the Philadelphia Orchestra as a little girl, sitting by my father’s side. Learning to sing and play the piano was assumed to be a basic part of our upbringing in the Helms Family. My father, Eric Daniel Helms,
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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
Throwback Thursday
The Catalan capital happens to be one of those cities that slither into your heart with such stealthy and disarming ease, that at times you wonder who slipped you the love potion. The city that has nurtured geniuses like Antoni Gaudi, Alicia de Larrocha, Salvador Dalí and Lionel Messi, has
Music Education
My first meeting with India was through a friend working at the Swedish Embassy in Delhi around 2005. I stayed three weeks, doing the ordinary tourist thing like the Agra, Taj Mahal, Jaipur and Khajuraho, but we also went to Ladakh and did some high altitude trekking for a few
Throwback Thursday
In order to endow a new work with value, it is not necessary to call it ‘experimental’, as if that could rubber stamp it with newness and worthiness. I am not sure that I would describe my work as ‘experimental’. Another commonly used tag for work crossing the boundaries between
Reviews
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
Throwback Thursday
’Twas the night before 4th of July. Independence Day had come early that year. The ghost of Arthur Fiedler, the legendary conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, had decided to pay a visit in the form of Hurricane Arthur, and the 4th of July Concert and Fireworks were rescheduled for
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Capital City Minstrels toured through Germany, Switzerland and Hungary over two weeks in June 2015 and as expected, it was as fun, as exciting, as inspiring and as strenuous as we expected! Through various host choirs in these countries, we were invited to sing at a range of venues from
Throwback Thursday
Music is service and awareness. The Cloud Forest Symphony Project was born out of a personal experience. While traveling to Singapore, I went with my family to the Cloud Forest Biosphere. It was a magnificent installation, however I found myself being incredibly disturbed-it was too silent, except for the man
