The musicologist David Evatt Tunley has died in Perth at the age of 96. A student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris, he wrote a seminal work on the French 18th century cantata and was decorated […]
“I came to see the roots of my own people’s culture, especially in our music which is still the richest and most healthy in America.” Athlete. Actor. Activist. Ambassador for freedom. Paul Robeson’s voice sang […]
The legendary tabla player, composer, actor and producer Zakir Hussain died today in a US hospital at the age of 73. A government minister declared him ‘irreplaceable’. Zakir Hussain shot to fame in the 1970s, […]