カテゴリー: Classical music
The Taliban are burning musical instruments in the name of morality. It is an assault on all culture
The sounds of Afghan history are being erased to prevent music’s ‘moral corruption’ of the Afghan people. We can help keep Afghanistan’s music alive. Plus, Eliane Radigue’s deep listening, and the brilliance of Sinners’s scoreThe horrors of the Taliban…
Bengali singer who has more Spotify followers than Taylor Swift to bring ‘sheer power’ to same London stage as BeyoncéSitting ahead of US pop megastars Olivia Rodrigo, Doechii and Gracie Abrams in the list of most-listened-to artists on Spotify around …
The classical musician, who performed with George Harrison and Van Morrison, died in a San Francisco hospital on SundayZakir Hussain, one of India’s most accomplished classical musicians who defied genres and introduced tabla to global audiences, has d…
A British orchestra will this week play, for the first time, a programme of Afghan music, featuring exiled Afghan musicians on traditional instrumentsThe musicians of Afghanistan have again been silenced by the Taliban. Other than specific religious an…
A new book tells how classical music, played to the Chinese by the Philadelphia Orchestra, ushered in decades of valuable interchanges now under threatIt was a big year for Tan Dun, the Oscar-winning Chinese musician who would go on to compose the soun…
Years of adherence to stringent rules leave a performer at odds with modern society in this melancholy film from Chaitanya Tamhane, India’s first Venice competitor for two decadesChaitanya Tamhane’s The Disciple comes boldly billed as the first Indian …
Narendra Modi said the death of Jasraj, aged 90, leaves ‘a deep void in the Indian cultural sphere’. Here, his students remember a man who lived inside musicThe Indian classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj has died at the age of 90, a man described by one o…