Prabal Gurung celebrates the churning creative energy of NYC

NEW YORK:  In celebration of the grit and eclectic glamour of his adopted New York City, Prabal Gurung staged his New York Fashion Week show Tuesday night at the famed Rainbow Room high above Midtown with his favorite street musician on a piano...

Travel Abroad 12 Feb, 2020

Murakami holds rare public reading to mark debut anniversary

TOKYO: A monkey that confesses he steals women's identity cards, causing them to temporarily forget who they are, starred Tuesday as author Haruki Murakami marked 40 years since his debut as a novelist with his first public reading in Japan in nearly a...

Art & Culture 19 Dec, 2019

Beethoven behind bars: Peru rehabilitates inmates with music

LIMA:  Holding a violin, saxophone or clarinet with handcuffed hands, some two-dozen prisoners were transported in an armoured bus to learn music alongside the symphony orchestra in the national theatre in Lima, the Peruvian capital. The recent...

Art & Culture 25 Jul, 2019

The Art of a Spiritual Era Brightens All Living Things: The Art of Dachan World Tour Exhibition Comes to France

PARIS: The 'TongXi' concert, a crucial event of The Art of a Spiritual Era Brightens All Living Things: The Art of Dachan World Tour Exhibition was held on July 1st, 2019 at the Pyramide of Louvre Museum in Paris, France. Hundreds of distinguished...

Art & Culture 08 Jul, 2019

North and South Korean musicians perform together in China

SHANGHAI: A South Korean violinist and a North Korean singer on Sunday held a rare joint performance they hope would help bring the divided Koreas closer together via music — especially at a time of emerging tensions amid deadlocked nuclear...

Travel Abroad 12 May, 2019

Zakir Hussain enthralls music aficionados in Kathmandu

KATHMANDU: More than 1,500 music lovers attending the Zakir Hussain concert at the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu were seemingly mesmerised as the Indian 'tabla' maestro created alluring rhythms, Tuesday evening. The concert was jointly organised by...

Horoscopes 29 Nov, 2018

When dream comes true at age 81

Kathmandu Jagat Mardan Thapa heard Maitighar’s Namaana Laaza Yesari  way back in 1966 — it was sung by our renowned singer-musician Prem Dhoj Pradhan and Indian singer Usha Mangeshkar. He had liked “Usha Mangeshkar’s voice when I heard the...

Art & Culture 08 Jul, 2017

Renowned Indian classical singer Kishori Amonkar dies at 84

NEW DELHI: Singer Kishori Amonkar, renowned for her innovative interpretation of classical Indian music, has died, one of her students said Tuesday. Amonkar (84) died late Monday at her home in central Mumbai after a brief illness, said...

Travel Abroad 04 Apr, 2017

Iconic New Delhi movie theater shuts down after 85 years

NEW DELHI: From Bollywood superstars to political heavyweights, the Regal theater hosted some of India's biggest names over more than eight decades. But with nostalgic theater-goers singing their way to the exits after a final showing of a...

Travel Abroad 02 Apr, 2017

His unique Jazz

Kathmandu Makoto Takenaka loves jazz, and that is what he does. But this 63-year-old Japanese pianist and composer does it differently. “I love to find a new scale and want to improvise on that scale,” he said in an exclusive interview...

Art & Culture 18 Feb, 2017

Au revoir, Dileep

Dileep was a raconteur extraordinaire and his stories enthralled his peers and juniors alike Pune, November 25 Dileep Padgaonkar went very much the way he lived his life, quietly and without any fuss. To say that India has lost one of its most...

Travel 26 Nov, 2016

Booker finalist Thien wins top Canada fiction prize

Man Booker Prize finalist Madeleine Thien on Monday won Canada's Giller Prize, the country's richest fiction award, for "Do Not Say We Have Nothing", about a young woman's flight from China after the Tiananmen Square protests. The C$100,000...

Travel Abroad 09 Nov, 2016