Music the artform and artists
Playing for Mumbai’s classical music connoisseurs
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- Tuesday, 03 May 2016
Dabgars come from India’s western belt that includes Gujarat, Rajasthan and some parts of Uttar Pradesh. Having long practised and promoted the art of making quality musical instruments, they specialise in making dhol-tashas, mrudungs, tablas, and other instruments.
Tales of the Unexpected: saying yes to today's composers
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- Tuesday, 03 May 2016
From requests for disused shops, paperbacks, toys, to an ocean bed, composers have kept BCMG on their toes. Outgoing artistic director Stephen Newbould reflects on the challenges and excitement at the cutting edge of contemporary music.
Le Cap-Vert, épicentre des possibles
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- Tuesday, 03 May 2016
En quatre ans, l’Atlantic Music Expo, qui s’est tenu mi-avril, est devenu un rendez-vous défricheur incontournable pour un marché des nouvelles sonorités réellement mondialisé.
Yehudi Menuhin: the violinist who changed the world
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- Tuesday, 19 April 2016
As president of the International Music Council, he gave a speech in the Soviet Union in which he praised the dissident poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
Teenage Dream: Adolescent ingenuity is shaping the future of pop
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- Tuesday, 19 April 2016
The eight young acts presented in this Portfolio strike a balance between technical achievement and wily innovation. There’s something special about capturing them in this moment of early maturation, because nature will surely reshape them as quickly as they have reshaped their respective musical realms. They won’t look this way forever, and they certainly won’t sound this way forever.
‘Hamilton’ and History: Are They in Sync?
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- Tuesday, 19 April 2016
As “Hamilton” fever has swept America, historians have hardly been immune. The megahit Broadway musical’s creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, has won prestigious honors from the profession, including the 2015 George Washington Book Prize. But even among historians who love the musical and its multiethnic cast, a question has also quietly simmered: does “Hamilton” really get Hamilton right?
The Guy Who's Making A Cappella Cool
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- Tuesday, 19 April 2016
Show choir. A cappella. Havens for nerds, right? Not so fast. If box-office earnings and the wild success of productions like Glee and Pitch Perfect are any indication, this sort of singing has made a giant leap from nerd niche to mainstream. We might even call it … cool.
James Levine quitte son poste au Metropolitan Opera de New York
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- Tuesday, 19 April 2016
The pioneering women of electronic music
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- Tuesday, 05 April 2016
Starting with Ada Lovelace and finishing with The ADA project, we’ve charted the visionary women whose experimentations with machines have defined and redefined the boundaries of the music.
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