Archive | Indian Music

The last time I wrote about Indian music, I described how Indian musicians create melody and improvise on it. Indian music is improvised, both melody and rhythm. For a composer like me, who writes everything, even  the smallest detail, abandoning decades of excruciating non-improvising, is a huge step. My goal for the Gayatri Mantra, the song I’m writing […]

I’m currently writing an opera based on Farahad Zama’s great book, The Marriage Bureau for Rich People. The story takes place in Vizag, a city in South India. Of course, the music I’m writing is plain old regular opera, or so I thought until I decided that one of the songs Aruna, the heroine, absolutely […]