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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Indian classical music is ancient, codified, rigorous, and refined, yet its spirit dwells in the inspiration and personality of individuals. Because ragas are at once systematic — each is built on a ...

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 ...

Washington, Oct 12: Entering the 70th year of his eventful life, Indian sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan is enjoying a bit of “musical flirtation” to connect the world and bring peace and harmony amidst ...

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 ...