Arties Chamber Ensemble performs at Art Chamber, Goa (14/03/15)
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,...
Vijay Upadhyaya
How did you get involved in Western Classical Music? I learnt piano from my mother. Due to the dearth of...
Inaugural Western Music Teachers’ Conference
On Sunday, July 5, 2015, the first conference for teachers of Western music was held in Delhi. The original scope of the conference was music teachers in Delhi, but the conference brought together over 50 participants from all over North...
Thoughts on India
It is a pleasure and privilege to introduce the very first issue of Serenade. I firmly believe that a high-quality magazine devoted to Western classical music...
The State Of Singing In India – An Interim Report
There is no doubting that interest in Western music is on the rise in India. Judging from the perspective of exam entries alone, there...
Music and Mathematics: The Fibonacci Sequence
Life very often throws some curious coincidences my way. Just as I was preparing a presentation for architecture students at the Goa College of Architecture on ‘Architecture and Music’ and looking at the relationship of the Fibonacci sequence to music,...
Phoenix Chamber Soloists : Survival of the Fittest Fiddlers
Why is it that making music in Mumbai is fraught with dangers? Is it because we as a society are...
Tonality Now: Finding A Groove – Reprint from The Future Symphony Institute
THE EAR IS A BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENON; but the human ear is also a cultural product. It has a history, a...