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Dhanush to play Ilaiyaraaja in the music maestro’s biopic: reports | Tamil News

Actor Dhanush has reportedly been roped in to play the role of legendary music composer Ilaiyaraaja in the latter’s biopic. According to the reports, the film will go on floors in 2024 and aim for a 2025 release. Ilayaraaja’s music is popular around the world and has been bestowed with the moniker of Isaignani, which translates into a ‘musical sage’.Most Read 1 Cricket World Cup: Why India is not in […]

todayOctober 31, 2023 3

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At 91, the sarod maestro’s pursuit of musical excellence continues

All it took was a moment: an electrifying brush with sarod maestro Ali Akbar Khan’s music as a teenager convinced Rajeev Taranath to take up the instrument. “It was a life-changing experience when he played his first movement on the sarod,” said Taranath. Taranath, born in Bangalore, became a student of Khan in his 20s. But the sarod had little presence in South India in the 1950s as Taranath was […]

todayOctober 17, 2023 9

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Maestros meet onstage at music festival honoring Seiji Ozawa

MATSUMOTO, Nagano Prefecture--John Williams, the composer behind some of the most memorable film scores in the history of cinema, conducted the Saito Kinen Orchestra on Sept. 2 at the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival (OMF), a music festival being held here through Sept. 6. It was his first visit to Japan in about 30 years. For about an hour, Williams, 91, conducted a series of his own compositions, including “Harry Potter” and “Schindler's […]

todaySeptember 3, 2023 7

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Remembering Ustad Bismillah Khan: A Musical Maestro’s Enduring Legacy

August 21, 2023 marks the 17th Death Anniversary of the legendary musician Ustad Bismillah Khan, and let us honor him today, remembeing  his remarkable contributions to the world of music. Ustad Bismillah Khan, also known as Bharat Ratna Ustad Bismillah Khan, was a musical virtuoso whose mastery of the Shehnai captivated audiences around the world. Born as Qamaruddin Khan on March 21, 1916, in a small village in Bihar, India, […]

todayAugust 21, 2023 4

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rehabilitation: Music behind the bars: When prisoners turn maestros

MUSIC WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY INCARCERATED PEOPLE HAS THE POWER TO TRANSFORM HOW WE THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT.One morning in 2019, Kenyatta Emmanuel Hughes was released from Fishkill Correctional Facility, in Beacon, N.Y., and traveled roughly 70 miles south to Carnegie Hall. That night he stood before a crowd - flanked by a horn section, a string quartet and backup singers - and sang words he'd written […]

todayAugust 4, 2023

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