In the run-up to Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday, a team of musicologists and programmers is using artificial intelligence to complete the composer’s unfinished tenth symphony. The piece was started by Beethoven alongside his famous ninth, which includes the well-known Ode To Joy. But by the time the German composer died in 1827, there were […]
looks like a normal day in the EU quarter. But a closer look shows a number of people scrambling up and down the EU’s new 312 million Euro European Council building. Greenpeace activists tied themselves to the window frames and let off loud sirens to remind EU leaders about what they consider a climate emergency. […]
The versatile virtuoso, Anoushka Shankar recently performed the Sitar concerto No. 2 at Lyon’s Auditorium, accompanied by the Orchestre National de Lyon. Composed by her late father Ravi Shankar, the legendary Sitar-player, it unites classical Indian tradition and music from the West. “Getting to play my father’s music is a very beautiful experience,” says Shankar. […]
Today, Iran’s tonbak drumming scene is thriving. There are more and more places for young people to learn to play instruments and perform and a growing number of professional percussionists. Javad Alirezaei, a rising star of the Iranian classical music scene, told me that mastering the tonbak is a long process that requires finding a […]
Tonbak, sometimes written as Tombak is one of the most known and popular Persian musical instruments in Iran. It is a hollow Iranian instrument like a drum. In simple words, it’s carved from a single piece of wood, a hollow center is on the top and open from the bottom side. A goatskin or sheepskin […]
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