Chetana Nagavajara Went to see a performance of “Waiting for Godot” yesterday, staged by the Suan Sunantha University Drama Department. Certainly the most enjoyable performance of the play I had ever seen. I had seen the play sever […]
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Chetana Nagavajara The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in the Philharmonie, Berlin The audience went wild after hearing Gershwin’s An American in Paris performed as the last item of the concert in the Philharmonie by the visitin […]
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Chetana Nagavajara The Library Fitzwilliam College The visit to Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge on September 15, 2012, gave me and my friends a chance to think about the rapid progress made by the College since our graduation in 1961. The recen […]
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Chetana Nagavajara The Concertbouw Orchestra at its home in Amsterdam The Concertgebouw Orchestra is in a category of its own. The concert on 4 September 2012 in the Philharmonic Berlin under Mariss Jansons was a revelation to me in the same manner a […]
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Chetana Nagavajara Porgy and Bess in a concert performance in Berlin The story of Porgy and Bess is supposed to have taken place in Charleston, South Carolina, shortly after the Civil War. To feel your way back to American history, with […]
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Chetana Nagavajara The Hall, Fitzwilliam College I went to my old College, Fitzwillam, Cambridge, for a reunion on September 15, 2012. I was staying with a former classmate at his home near Richmond Park in London, and he drove me […]
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Chetana Nagavajara The Konzertrhausorchester Berlin I must confess that I went to the Konzerthaus again on 19 September 2012 in the hope of hearing Mitsuko Uchida live for the first time. She fell ill and could not make it to Berlin. A young A […]
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Chetana Nagavajara Isabelle Faust The current Berlin Music Festival has a well thought-out agenda. The emphasis is on American music, most of which is rarely heard. A number of orchestras have agreed to take part, and what is more demand […]
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Chetana Nagavajara Timon as a “Saleng” I just chanced my luck by going straight to the National Theatre in London in the hope of getting a ticket for Shakespear’s Timon of Athens, which had had rave reviews. I was asked […]
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Morton Feldman Cheana Nagavajara I have known the London Symphony Orchestra for decades. It’s a very “professional” ensemble: they can play anything after 2-3 rehearsals. Sometimes the actual concert is just as good (or […]
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