Category: Music

From a previous edition of the Jazz Festival, held in Mumbai in 2023. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Eddie Prithviraj has always disliked referring to the Madras Jazz Festival as a ‘small’ event. This is why when a panel moderator in Mumbai called it a ‘boutique festival’, he immediately chose to co-opt it. “It sounds...

As the musical legacy of Swathi Thirunal continues to be celebrated, composer-singer M Jayachandran has taken up an ambitious project — ‘Swathi’s Manipravalam’, an 18-song series on the king-composer’s padams (love poems) in Manipravalam, a literary language combining Malayalam and Sanskrit. The first song in the series, ‘Kulirmathi vadane’, sung by Carnatic musicians Ranjani and...

Rakesh Chaurasia, the nephew of Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia playing the flute on the second day of the ITC Sangeet Sammelan music festival. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Kolkata’s ITC Sangeet Research Academy celebrated Hindustani classical music from across India with stalwarts, including Shubha Mudgal and Rakesh Chaurasia, regaling captivated audiences. This five-decade-old stage has commemorated...

FILE – Elton John waves to the waiting media as he leaves the Royal Courts Of Justice in London, Monday, March 27, 2023. | Photo Credit: Alberto Pezzali Elton John says he struggled to watch his new musical because he has lost his eyesight after contracting an infection. The singer-songwriter attended the opening night of...

Kashish Mittal will be performing for the first time at the festival | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement For more than 20 years,  the Delhi government has consistently held festivals for the arts —  be it classical music and dance, thumri and bhakti geet, or showcasing young artistes through Sopan. Being given performance opportunities in Delhi...

Rama Sundar Ranganathan and Himanshu Srivastava at their ‘Sangam’ show | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement On a nippy November evening, visitors stepping into India Habitat Centre, Delhi’s art and culture hub for a painting exhibition got to listen to the rhythmic notes of Indian classical music. Quite fitting, for Hindustani vocalist Rama Sundar Ranganathan and...

Members of the band My Chemical Romance. Bob Bryar (L). File | Photo Credit: AP Bob Bryar, a former drummer with My Chemical Romance who played on the band’s career-defining rock opera, “The Black Parade,” has died, according to the band. He was 44. “The band asks for your patience and understanding as they...

Dua Lipa performs at the Zomato Feeding India Concert in Mumbai | Photo Credit: Instagram/ @walkofftheplanet Mumbai witnessed an unforgettable night as global pop sensation Dua Lipa took the stage at the Zomato Feeding India Concert on Saturday. The Grammy-winning artist stunned the audience with a lively performance, but the highlight of the evening was...

Carnatic music is somewhat of a late entrant to archiving. Beyond a few isolated instances, books and periodicals, audio, and video records are available in plenty but very poorly stored, imperfectly curated, and most often, inaccessible. In recent years, technology has come to the rescue and has enabled archiving in various ways. We have some...

Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti. | Photo Credit: Johan Sathyadas In numerous interviews, Kuppuswami Chetti has spoken about how he learnt to understand the music that he already enjoyed. He is someone who has taken a long-term view of the sabha culture and the Season, and ensures the arts are supported. He backs almost every other sabha...