Anoushka Shankar
What are your thoughts on Western classical music and fusion? I don’t like the Indian and Western comparisons, but the...
Play
The thing about music is it needs to be played, and heard, and played some more. I went to Paris because...
Data Sonification: The Sound of Space
The Anglia Ruskin academic department performed live data beamed back from the DSCOVR satellite. Two unique performances of the “Sound of the Earth” were staged in Austin, Texas, on 16th and 17th November 2015. Taking place in the NASA booth at...
WHY OPERA AT HABITAT?
About two years ago, I was asked by Vidyun Singh, who heads the Programmes Division of the India Habitat Centre,...
Pallavi Mahidhara
What were the highlights of your India tour? It would be very difficult to choose a specific moment as the...
Pallavi Mahidhara – A Name To Watch!
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...
Western classical music; a perspective based on the Indian concept of ‘rasa’
“What is Western classical music?” When an Indian musical magazine asked me to write an article answering such a wide...
Opening with Opera – Giving Voice Society
Bombay has an earnest but limited audience for Western classical music – unless the best known ambassador for it comes...