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Bandra's musicians pay homage to their late teacher Blanche Viegas, in a concert
Updated On: 06 April, 2024 09:39 AM IST | Mumbai | Shriram Iyengar
Some of the city’s best-known names in popular Western music join hands as they pay homage to their late teacher, Blanche Viegas, in a touching tribute concert
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(From left) Rhys Sebastian and Merlin D’Souza with (centre) their teacher, Blanche Viegas at her home
There was a time when Bandra was a small, charming township built around few communities. In such an age, there were often individuals who touched lives and left an impact across generations. Among them was the late Blanche Viegas. A proficient pianist and Western classical musician, it was her long teaching and accompanying career of over seven decades that left an impact on the city’s music culture. Tomorrow, her students come together to pay a tribute to their loving Miss Blanche in their old neighbourhood.
“Music was always a part of the Viegas household,” shares daughter Blossom Mendonca. As founder director of the choral group, Living Voices-Mumbai, Mendonca has carried on a legacy that began with her grandfather. “He played the violin, while my grandmother played the piano. My father, Raul Viegas, also conducted inter-parish choir competitions, and had an amateur choir, Nocturne amateur choir,” she notes. In the quaint suburb of Bandra in the 1970s and 80s, the doors of the Viegas home were always open for conversations, music lessons and choir rehearsals.
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