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How Mumbai’s first music club transformed Hindustani classical from an imperial privilege into a cultural movement...

It began with a moment of audacity. A 19-year-old student from Jai Hind College, mesmerised by a soprano’s power, mustered the courage to ask a simple question: “What form of singing is this?” When...

From international stages to his hometown, Frazan Adil Kotwal presents From Dawn to Dream, a Western classical recital with pianist Nadine Jo CrastoFor internationally acclaimed Indian baritone...

At 89, conductor Zubin Mehta doesn’t make things easy for himself. Since taking on the role of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s conductor emeritus, Mehta has been bringing Walt Disney Concert Hall...

Zubin Mehta, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s conductor emeritus and (without exaggeration) a living L.A. icon, returned last weekend to conduct Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony with his old band.The score...

Jini Dinshaw, violin virtuoso and founder of the Bombay Chamber Orchestra (BCO)—India’s oldest indigenous Western classical orchestra—passed away on Thursday, aged 95, four days after the demise of...

Jini Dinshaw (1930-2025), the founder of the Bombay Chamber Orchestra – India’s oldest active Western classical orchestra – was a one-woman institution in Mumbai’s Western classical music...

Our friend Frazan Kotwal was interviewed by Vichaar Vibes on Youtube….In this episode 29, we talked to Frazan Adil Kotwal  @frazankotwal3768   an opera singer born in Mumbai, uniquely...

The 88-year-old maestro was recently in Mumbai to once again conduct the Symphony Orchestra of India. Globally celebrated conductor Zubin Mehta was greeted with a standing ovation as he walked to...

Octogenarian maestro Zubin Mehta is in Mumbai for the second consecutive year to conduct the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI) at the NCPA, which will be held over two successive weekends. Although...

Tracing a tiny Mumbai community’s journey with a niche art form At any Western classical music performance that I attend in Mumbai, the audience is always a sea of elderly Parsis. (Parsis are a tiny...

The LA based conductor is in Mumbai headlining two sold-out shows conducting the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI). The inaugural concert took place on August 19th.Article by Sarosh BanaZubin Mehta...

Zubin Mehta walks onstage more slowly than he did in his youthful, dashing days and is helped by a cane. He conducts sitting down. Sunday afternoon at Walt Disney Concert Hall, his arm movements...

For Zubin Mehta, time is sacred. Few callings are as severely an imposition on time as is his pursuit: classical music. In the Western tradition, transcribed on paper in extraordinary detail, in...

Renowned choreographer Marzi Pestonji went down the memory lane and recalled his journey on how he bagged the opportunity to be a background dancer in ‘Dil Toh Pagal Hai’.Master Marzi, who is also...

Zubin Mehta, the globally-acclaimed Parsi conductor from Mumbai, Music Director Emeritus of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and Conductor Emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is all set...

Musician Navzad Dabu provided late-night commuters in NYC’s Metropolitan Avenue / Grand Street subway station with a phenomenal private performance. His graveyard shift concert included back-to-back...

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was born Leon Dudley in Essex, England. He was an English composer with a mixed race background, born to a Parsi father and an English mother said to have been of Spanish...

The legendary conductor Maestro Zubin Mehta has been awarded an Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), in recognition of his eminent service to the Australia-India bilateral relationship...

It’s a marvellous thing that the great Indian conductor Zubin Mehta will be wielding the baton for that illustrious group the Australian World Orchestra at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall on 31 August and on...

As he returns to the Proms podium at 86, the conductor discusses politics, passions, and why he has long avoided Elgar's Cello ConcertoArticle By Ivan Hewett, | The Telegraph UKZubin Mehta before a...

Zephyr releases his 2nd single for 2022, this April 1st. Drummer, Music Producer and Recording Artist, Zephyr combines his influences from playing in Urban Drum Crew, his love for Celtic vocals and...

Over the last three weeks India is going through one of the worst public health crisis of our lifetimes. The fact that this comes more than a year into the covid-19 pandemic is even worse.Here is a...

Musicians of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra pay tribute to the genius of Zubin Mehta, who was the Musical Conductor of the IPO for over 50 years.

Our dear friend and brilliant singer Ervad Frazan Adil Kotwal sings a new Hymn composed by Parizad Irani. The hymn is titled "Ahunavad Gathao"

Jehan Bhesania, better known by his stage name ‘Jayhaan’ is a priest by day and a DJ by night. His budding career in music has already spearheaded the entry of Jersey Club in India which was...

Freddie Mercury Museum ZanzibarStone Town, Zanzibar (CNN) — Down a small, narrow alley in the historic Stone Town neighborhood of Zanzibar, an old building beckons to visitors. Faded photographs are...

In 2016 the FEZANA Annual General Meeting was hosted by the Zoroastrian Association of Michigan in Detroit, USA. At the Gala Event, one of the most interesting events was the rendition of the song...

Wadia Movietone introduced 12 year old boy Firoze as new child prodigy and a singing sensetion in their 1933 venture Laal-E-Yaman.. The mythological was a big hit for it music and made Firoz an...

Our dear friend Rusi Dalal writes in about the new Freddie Mercury Museum that was recently opened in Zanzibar. Rusi writes in that the Freddie Mercury Museum that has been opened in November 2019...

Power Of Love featuring The Global Lockdown Choir | Shayan Italia | Delraaz Bunshah | A Zoroastrian Parsi Initiative THE POWER OF LOVE is a heartfelt global music initiative stemmed by the Indian...

Our dear friend and amazing musician Frazan Adil Kotwal was invited today to the Robert Bosch Hospital to sing for the corona Virus patients. It was handled very carefully and professionally. He was...

Check out Zane Commissariat spending his time at home in a creative manner, and also sending a strong message to COVID-19. Zane is a young Zarathushti growing up in Southern California and along...

Our dear friend and eminent Parsi historian and author Marzban Giara sends us the following update https://youtu.be/4d3FIVdZ6wg https://youtu.be/v2FvZhkz-CM https://youtu.be/Y6sQIc9wN6Y...

Parsi Khabar has featured Shanaya Patel before, and today we are happy to share the launch of her new single ALONE. You can stream Shanaya’s single: https://lnkfi.re/ShanayaPatelAbout ShanayaAs...

Rock band Queen's performance at Live Aid in 1985 has often been hailed as one of the greatest gigs seen at Wembley Stadium.Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has heaped praise on Queen's late lead...

Parsi Khabar readers will remember us featuring ZDOGG MD a while ago. Well, aapro Dr. Zubin Damania….aka ZDOGG MD has come up with a new videoZubin writes….From Freddy Mercury to ZDoggMD, the...

Navroze Godrej recently put out his first solo music single. The song titled River is a beautifully composed ballad with Navroze's soulful and free voice enhanced by some fantastic music....

26-year old Zarir Marfatia has always been driven by both creative and analytical interests. Struggling to choose between the two, he finally decided to pursue a parallel career path doing both....

Further meets Persian-French opera singer Ariana Vafadari, who takes enigmatic Zoroastrian prayers from 3700 BC and transforms them into haunting operatic pieces that speak to 21st-century festival...

“Run the Race Again” - A Brand New Instrumental Single by Nenshad Bardoliwalla Available NOW! ALL proceeds will go to charity!Apple Music / iTunes:...

JERUSALEM, MEHTA, MAHLER AND HATIKVABeneath the Music Those are quite difficult moments, the moments of farewell. Especially if people are tight on in a family-like motto for the span of  two...

After five remarkable decades, Zubin Mehta is retiring from music directorship of the IPO and says a touching and moving farewell to his orchestra and audience

It is really hard to imagine Israel Philharmonic concerts without Zubin Mehta's figure on the podium at the opening of the season. Love of music, Israel and the Jewish people came together in one...

By FPJ Web DeskIt’s been 25 years, but maestro Zubin Mehta is all set to pass on the baton as the conduct of the Israel Philharmonic.It’s been 25 years, but maestro Zubin Mehta is all set to pass on...

A tribute to Pandit Firoz Dastur, the Kirana gharana maestro, who was born on September 30, 1919Firoz Dastur’s good looks and sonorous voice were featured first in Lal-e-Yaman, the oriental fantasy...