For most Westerners, Indian classical music begins with the sitar and ends with the tabla. More aware listeners may also be familiar with the lute-like sarod and the double-reed shenai. But few are ...

The relics of music inherited by a region speak volumes about its inhabitants’ religion, language, and social status. But aside from being inherited or adopted, music is fundamental to the ...

With Reshma Shetty portraying five pivotal women and Vikas Rawat embodying the bansuri, the play brings the maestro’s life and music to the stage The special and unusual feature of the musical play ...

The 17th Annual Bansuri Utsav in Thane celebrated Indian classical music with spellbinding performances and cultural ...

Q. What is Latin Jazz? Have you come across an Indian connection, if at all? A. I haven’t come across any Indian connection between Latin Jazz and India, but yes, Indian film composers have a long ...

Everyone who loves classical music would have wished to learn it from a legend. If you’re a fan of bamboo flute (Bansuri), here is your chance. Believe it or not, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, one of ...

Even on the toughest township streets of South Africa, one could always hear a lively beat and a soulful song. Under apartheid, even music was segregated. That's partly how Deepak Ram — who was raised ...

According to mythology, 'bansuri' (South Asian transverse alto flute) is intimately linked to the love story of Krishna and Radha. Legends narrate how the tunes of bansuri would drive the women of ...