Last November, Candlelight Concerts made its debut during Margazhi festival in Chennai, known for its inclusion in UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network for Music. Candlelight Concerts, helmed by Live Your ...
In Carnatic music, concerts with instrumentalist headliners such as the veena, flute or violin are a small fraction of performances at most music festivals, including the biggest one of them all the ...
"I have never heard this song before,” an elderly audience member told me right after my recent concert in Bengaluru. The song he was referring to was Athi Saavadana, composed by the 17th century ...
Kritis written by poet Prabha Varma will be featured in a Carnatic music concert at Vyloppilly Samskrithi Bhavan on December 30. It will be performed by K R Shyama who has also composed the `Kritis`.
The classical music concert dais poses a lot of challenges to artistes. They are expected to constantly raise the bar. Singing niravals, kalpanaswaras, or a ragam-tanam-pallavi (RTP) with intricate ...
Since its opening in January 1921, the iconic Town Hall in Manhattan has hosted some of the world’s greatest musicians, such as Paul Robeson, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Billie Holliday, Nina Simone, Bob ...