Star Voice of India 2007 Winner, Ishmeet Singh died of drowning in Maldives

Breaking News! Ishmeet Singh, winner of Star Voice of India 2007, died of drowning in Maldives. He had gone to Maldives this morning to participate in a music show on August 1. Ishmeet was from Ludhiana. According to reports, Ishmeet drowned in a swimming pool while having fun with his friends.

Ishmeet Singh won many hearts in India and abroad for his great singing skills. After being crowned the winner of Star Voice of India on November 24, 2007, he was handed over the trophy by legendary Lata Mangeshkar. The entire country plunged into grief and sadness at Ishmeet's untimely death.

Trapp Salzburg villa alive with `sound of music`

Vienna July 26: Salzburg is alive with the sound of music once again, as the von Trapp family's villa opened its doors to the public this weekend for the first time, as a hotel and museum. The villa in Aigen, a southeastern suburb of Salzburg, was for over 15 years the home of Captain von Trapp, his seven children and their governess Maria, who would inspire a Broadway musical, an Oscar-winning film and some of the best-loved characters on the silver screen. Now, 70 years after the family left Austria for the United States following the Nazis' annexation of the country in 1938, and over 40 years after cinema audiences were first treated to "The Sound of Music," the estate has rediscovered its roots. The 878 square meter (9,450 square feet) "Villa Trapp" opened on Friday afternoon in the presence of one of the children, Maria von Trapp, aged 93. "It’s very nice to be here, I feel like home again", she said at a press conference in the villa. The original mansion with its imperial yellow facade, white borders and dark green shutters, surrounded by trees, offers what no film location can: a sense of history. The late-19th century mansion by Italian architect Valentin Ceconi was the home of Captain von Trapp and his seven children -- their real names: Rupert, Agathe, Maria, Werner, Hedwig, Johanna and Martina -- from 1923 to 1938. And this is where "Fraeulein Maria" -- actually Maria Kutschera, a teacher from Vienna who had joined the Nonnberg Benedictine convent in Salzburg -- was first introduced to the children and her future husband whom she married in 1927. Now, the villa, which is still owned by the missionaries who inhabited the grounds until recently, has been turned into a hotel and event location, catering to wedding parties and dinners, even offering cakes from one of Maria von Trapp's own recipes. Starting in 2009, the Villa Trapp will also organise another true Austrian tradition: a grand annual summer ball. Meanwhile, guests can stay in the suite that once served as Captain von Trapp's office, or in the parlour in which the family took their afternoon tea. "In each hallway, in each corner, you will find a piece of the history of a world-famous family," boasts the villa's website. In the grand salon, one can admire photographs of the family, a bell from Captain von Trapp's ship and a model boat he built himself, while on the sprawling estate guests can sit on a bench where he used to relax. Appropriately, the villa's opening coincides with two important dates on the Austrian calendar. 2008 marks the 70th anniversary of the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria and the von Trapps' departure for the United States, where they would ultimately settle down in Vermont. The Villa Trapp's inauguration also came a day before the opening of the world-renowned annual Salzburg Festival, in which the von Trapp family singers won their first prize in 1937, before playing in venues around Europe and the United States.

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Music Articles And Life Enrichment

Whether you admit it or not, music imbeds our daily life, weaving its beauty and emotion through our thoughts, activities and memories. So if you're interested in music theory, music appreciation, Beethoven, Mozart, or other composers, artists and performers, we hope you'll spend some time with here and learn from these music articles of note for all ages and tastes.

When I first started studying the history of music, I did not realize what I was getting into. I had thought that music history was somewhat of a trivial pursuit. In fact, I only took my history of classical music class because I needed the credits. I did not realize how completely fascinating music history is. You see, in our culture many of us do not really learn to understand music. For much of the world, music is a language, but for us it is something that we consumed passively. When I began to learn about the history of Western music, however, it changed all that for me. I have had some experience playing musical instruments, but I have never mastered one enough to really understand what music is all about. This class showed me.

When most of us think about the history of music, we think of the history of rock music. We assume that the history is simple because the music is simple. In fact, neither is the case. The history of music, whether you're talking about classical music, rock music, jazz music, or any other kind, is always complicated. New chord structures are introduced bringing with them new ways of understanding the world. New rhythmic patterns are introduced, bringing with them new ways of understanding time. And music reflects all of it.

Even when the class was over, I could not stop learning about the history of music. It had whetted my appetite, and I wanted more. I got all the music history books that I could find. I even began to research forms of music that had not interested me before in the hopes of enhancing my musical knowledge further. Although I was in school studying toward something very different – a degree in engineering – I had thought about giving it up and going back to get a degree in musicology. That is how much I am fascinated by the subject.

If you have never taken a course in the history of music, you don't know what you are missing out on. The radio will never sound the same to you again. Everything will seem much more rich, much more luminous, and much more important. A new song can reflect a new way of being, and a new way of imagining life in the world. This is what learning about the history of music means to many of us.
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