VIDEO PODCAST: Slava Ukraini! - recorded on 24 February 2022, the day Europe woke up to the news that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces had invaded Ukraine. A fifty minute video which also features Caitríona O'Leary and Eric Fraad discussing their new film Island of Saints, and pays tribute to Joseph Horovitz, Malcolm Troup and Maria Nockin.
VIDEO PODCAST: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Youth Involvement in Classical Music - this specially extended illustrated feature includes contributions from Christopher Morley, Gerald Fenech, Halida Dinova, Patricia Spencer and Roderic Dunnett.
ROMANTICISM: Explore the late George Colerick's fascinating series of articles encroaching on the subjects of melody, romanticism, operetta and humour in music.
Indian bass sitar player Annapurna Devi was born at Maihar in 1927, possibly on 23 April. She studied with her father, Allauddin Khan, founder of the Maihar ghahara, the school of Hindustani classical music, and became a very accomplished musician and one of the first female teachers of Hindustani classical music.
She was married to Ravi Shankar, who was originally one of her father's students, for more than forty years, and in the 1950s they played duets in Delhi and Calcutta. Following their divorce, she never played in public again, but became a notable teacher in Mumbai, and the key figure of the Acharya Alauddin Music Circle, a Mumbai-based association for promoting Indian classical music, in memory of her father.
Annapurna Devi died in Mumbai on 13 October 2018, aged ninety-one.