Priti Paintal's Secret Chants
This March, the Daily Classical Music Post will introduce you to some of the most wonderful music ever composed—and, yes, it will all be by women composers! https://youtu.be/aNWpUGd6U6c Priti Paintal (b. 1960) is an East Indian composer. She was the first Asian and first woman to receive a commission from the Royal Opera, an opera based on the life of Stephen Biko (1992). Paintal mixes Eastern and Western music in her compositions. In 1993, she said: "In general, close familiarity with Western classical music among Indians is still rather unusual. My experience of it came through my mother, who was introduced to it by her father, he being an orphan had been adopted by a German missionary and put in a German Missionary school in the Himalayas. This in itself was quite unusual, and made him feel a bit of an outsider in India. However, he embraced Western culture with such enthusiasm that all his children grew up having to learn piano and Western classical music. . . . When I...