Photo of Juan Moreno Moya’s portrait of Kalyan Mukherjea Despite the dominant rhetoric about the antiquity of Indian classical music, many instruments used in performance, not to mention some of the ...

The sarod, a lute-like instrument widely used in folk music across Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh, has nearly fallen silent in Pakistan. The stringed instrument has featured in several ...

Amjad Ali Khan is a superstar in his native India, but his chosen instrument would make a good crossword clue for many New Orleanians: Lute-like, 25-string instrument with a history that dates back ...

In this NDTV Exclusive, Grammy-winning sarod maestros Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash, newly appointed goodwill ambassadors for WWF‑India, share how India’s wild landscapes and majestic tigers ...

Amjad Ali Khan, a virtuoso on the lute-like sarod, started his first American tour in the mid-1960s. From the age of 6, he had performed in his native India, and teenage Khan was ready to bring the 25 ...

Originally, the term ‘gharana’ referred to a khaandaan or family of professional musicians with successive generations involved in the performance and teaching of a specific style of Hindustani vocal ...

Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, the master Indian musician and composer who was a pivotal figure in introducing the music of his homeland to the West, has died. He was 87. The legendary sarod player and ...

Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash are waiting to take their creation, the Erod, to the world, says Aditi Divekar. IMAGE: Ayaan and Amaan Ali Bangash. Photograph: Kind courtesy riotartists.com ...

LSG HOSTED AMJAD ALI KHAN AND SONS AMAAN ALI BANGASH AND AYAAN ALI BANGASH AT TAJ BENGAL FOR A TUNEFUL EVENING. ONLY t2 WAS THERE From music to discipline, privilege to pressure, sarod maestro Amjad ...

Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan has a suggestion for aspiring musicians that if they want a career then they should not learn classical music. He added that classical music is a lifelong service ...