Music the artform and artists
A Tibetan Opera Company Dances on the Roof of the World
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- Tuesday, 18 June 2013
"We bless the stage," Tsering Wangmo told us the other day. She's the artistic director of Chaksam-pa. "And we invite spirits with juniper to purify the air and incense. The goal is to protect deities around wherever we are performing. Then we offer songs and dance and then the story starts."
Playing Mozart — On Mozart's Violin
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- Monday, 17 June 2013
The violin and viola that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played himself are in the United States for the first time ever. The instruments come out of storage only about once a year at the Salzburg Mozarteum in Austria.
Schoenberg’s Bad Boy Turns 100, Too
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- Thursday, 13 June 2013
The centennial of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring this season has overshadowed the 100th birthday of another groundbreaking score — Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire."
Glastonbury 2013: Tibetan monks will play on centenary of Independence
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- Thursday, 13 June 2013
The Gyuto Monks of Tibet, from the Dalai Lama's homeland, will perform at this year's Glastonbury festival after signing a global record deal.
That Instrument Known as the Eiffel Tower
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- Wednesday, 05 June 2013
Joseph Bertolozzi, an American composer who created music out of the sounds made by banging on a bridge, takes his hammers to Paris.
Yo Africa, Uganda's First Youth Orchestra Launched
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- Wednesday, 05 June 2013
The hopeful and delightful notes from instruments played by mostly pre-teen children at the launch of the YO Africa Youth Orchestra at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel last Sunday, should have been the highlight of the week for anyone who was in attendance.
Botswana musician savouring Samba prospect
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- Tuesday, 04 June 2013
Botswana's budding traditional musician Rejoice Gaonakala will performance at next year's World Cup in Brazil.
An ode to the Bollywood music revolutionary
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- Tuesday, 04 June 2013
When you talk about the works of R D Burman (Pancham Da), there are many dimensions that you touch upon – RDB-Gulzar, RDB-Kishore Kumar and RDB-Rajesh Khanna.
How Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music
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- Tuesday, 04 June 2013
The Rite of Spring was a revolutionary work for a revolutionary time. Its first performance in Paris, exactly 100 years ago on Wednesday, was a key moment in cultural history – a tumultuous scandal.
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