From promising debuts to anticipated returns, the SOI Spring 2024 Season was a memorable one for the choice of music, line-up and extraordinary playing by the Symphony Orchestra of India. We bring you snapshots from the concerts, recitals, talks and interactions that music aficionados were treated to.
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The Performing Arts Dispatch
A series on houses of culture from around the world. In focus this month: the Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
A Kaleidoscope of Innovation and Tradition
Art for Art’s Sake
Notes on Mumbai’s maiden art fair, Art Mumbai.
The Music Speaks for Itself
ON Stage brings you edited excerpts from the NCPA Quarterly Journal, an unsurpassed literary archive that ran from 1972 to 1988 and featured authoritative and wide-ranging articles. In the first of a two-part series, musician and composer Bhaskar Chandavarkar describes the transcendent, and sometimes truly experimental, performances presented at the East-West Music Encounter held in 1983, the first in a series of symposiums organised across disciplines to re-identify the bonds between eastern and western cultures.
Rolling with Rock Stars
In Calling Elvis, veteran journalist Shantanu Datta presents an eclectic, celebrity-filled collection of personal reflections and interviews with the likes of Sting, Roger Waters, L. Subramaniam and Carlos Santana. In the excerpt below, Datta speaks with the inimitable Keith Richards just before the Rolling Stones’ first concert in India.
A Comprehensive Collection
Dr. Paramita Mukherjee Mullick describes her experience at the recently held World Book Day celebrations at the NCPA.
