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Beethoven up close: NCPA’s ambitious two-year quartet project marks the 200th anniversary of the composer’s death

Prateek Tanmay
Music
May 19, 2026
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Cellist Gauthier Herrmann and NCPA chairman Khushroo Suntook curate the series, which features Beethoven’s quartets alongside masterpieces by Mozart and other western greats.

Prateek Tanmay

Prateek Tanmay
Music
May 17, 2026
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Ilaiyaraaja, the eternal experimenter

Half a century after maestro Ilaiyaraaja’s debut as a composer, his music continues to defy categorisation, dissolving boundaries between folk idioms, Carnatic grammar, and Western classical architecture.