AR Rahman launches Global Music

After waiting for seven years, A.R. Rahman yesterday launched his first full-fledged orchestra. It has been named Global Music and is the first homegrown orchestra. "I kept hearing someone is setting up an orchestra and waited for seven long years for someone else to set up an orchestra like the New York, London or Budapest Philharmonic in India. But it did not happen", said Rahman.

"Whenever I want to compose for an orchestra, I have to go to London or Budapest," he complained. The music maestro announced setting up of the orchestra along with the launch of his KM Conservatory, a music school for professional musicians in the outskirts of the city. The orchestra, to be fully operational in the next two years, will have both Indian as well as Western musicians.