CMSC presents extraordinary event

The Chamber Music Society of Colombo (CMSC), the arbiters of serious classical music in the country, produced another extraordinary event titled Music + Film on June 9 at the Goethe-Hall. With funding from Concerts Norway through the Norwegian Embassy in Colombo, the Goethe-Institute, Colombo,

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Contemporary Painters

Dinusha Uthpala Upasena :

Work of art with inimitable taste and colour

Dinusha Upasena hails from Panadura, a town where the intellectual elite of the time, particularly, journalists, musicians, artistes, poets and skilled craftsmen were born. As a little boy, Dinusha grew up in a house where there was ardent interest for painting, sculpture, leather and wood work. He hails from a family of artistes and craftsmen.

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Cultural Scene

Deconstruction, a cheap weapon?

We concluded the previous week’s column with an observation of Dennis Dutton: “As a philosopher, I find this awe pretty silly, but there it is: I hold piano virtuosos in reverential awe and my pianist friends tell me that’s silly too. Second, it must be admitted that there are intelligent scholars in other fields who, whatever their considerable abilities,

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