Robert Ames
Where did you grow up in England? I grew up in Northamptonshire where I completed my state school education. My initial...
Youngest Festival in Goa: Ketevan World Sacred Music Festival
Setting the Stage In Anna E Nekola and Tom Wagner Edited Congregational Music- Making and Community in a Mediated Age,...
La Catedral – the story behind the music
Especially because I like knowing what I’m playing, but also because I’m a fan of history in general, I wish I knew more about early 20th Century Latin America – and in particular, that I knew more about the first...
What It takes to be a conductor
A Conductor should be a many faceted person with a wide artistic and human hinterland. Waving arms around is merely...
Operetta from Hungary – THE CSARDAS PRINCESS
This Friday, 25th March at 7:00 pm at India Habitat Centre, Delhi witnesses an extravagant Operetta from Hungary – THE...
Music education for life skills development in children
Most of my childhood was spent hearing about my dad’s travels in the “BIMARU” states in India (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh considered to be the most backward), and my eldest brother’s classical piano playing (today he is...
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2016: POMONA COLLEGE, CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA
I was invited by my alma mater, Pomona College, to take part in a celebration of the 100th anniversary of...
Gandhi Ashram School Strings Concert Tour Project
A project that started with me trying to get an amateur college choir a chance to perform with an orchestra...