MUMBAI: The Mehli Mehta Music Foundation will mark his birth anniversary by presenting five concerts from 7 to 12 October with maestro Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
The concerts will feature several other legendary artists like pianist Daniel Barenboim, tenor Placido Domingo, soprano Barbara Frittoli and violinist Pinchas Zukerman. Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will be playing for the third time in India.
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MUMBAI: Siliguri based Radio High has launched a musical troupe, �High Rockers' and will launch the troupe's debut album soon under their label christened �High Music'.
Confirms Radio High managing director Milon Chakrabarty, There is ample talent in this region but the artistes do not have the facilities or the resources to make it big They lack the required infrastructure, instruments, studio set up. So Radio High is taking the initiative to provide them a platform to ex...
MUMBAI: Nokia is likely to launch its first touch screen phone in India in the third week of November. The Finnish handset major will position the phone, �Nokia 5800', under its music platform �XpressMusic' series and likely to price it at sub-Rs 20,000.
The model has just been unveiled globally and pegged by analysts as the iPhone killer.
Nokia India managing director D Shivakumar expects this phone will create the market for touch screen devices in India.
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MUMBAI: BBC Global News has extended its relationship with online video community YouTube by signing an agreement to add six BBC video news channels in Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Persian and Urdu to its existing BBC World News channel.
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MUMBAI: Radio One 94.3 FM, for the Fataafat Generation, had one of Bollywood's hottest newcomers Imran Khan along at their studios in conversation with the station's very popular ulti-seedhi jodi of RJs Jaggu and Tarana in a fun tete-a-tete on the Good Morning Mumbai show from 7 am – 11 am.
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MUMBAI: Trying his hands on acting, David Archuleta, American Idol's seventh season will appear in an episode of Nickelodeon's iCarly. The episode titled 'Rocked the Vote' will be aired in Spring.
In the episode, Archuleta will play a contestant on a show similar to American Idol, called America Sings. Archuleta's character will receive a huge boost in votes after gaining the support of the iCarly blog. iCarly is a show about a high school girl who runs a video blog with her friends.
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MUMBAI: Taking the NDTV-Toyota Environment Telethon further, the musical trio, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, and the seasoned Lyricist; Gulzar have come together with NDTV to launch an anthem to save the environment. This green anthem - "Hawaein, Patte, Paani" is a clarion call for people to take action instead of being just mute spectators to the continued degradation of the earth.
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