Raga enthusiasts and curious students got their fill of the traditional Indian musical idiom during a Saturday performance by world-renowned sitar player Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan. Parvez, accompanied ...

The pair spent weeks together, starting the lessons at Harrison's house in England and then moving to a houseboat in Kashmir and later to California. Gaining confidence with the complex instrument, ...

For hundreds of centuries, raga has formed the backbone of Indian classical music, offering a guideline for musicians to improvise when performed live. Ragas—which roughly translates to “coloring”—are ...

For the past year, percussionist Sameer Gupta’s nonprofit, RootStock Arts, has presented bite-sized programs of classical Indian music at Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery. By turning the ...

A classical Indian music festival will take listeners on a 24-hour sonic journey, with the music in each hour aligned with the time of day. The Ragas Live Festival, which will begin at 7 pm on Oct. 19 ...

The kids at first didn’t seem to know how to respond as Ravi Shankar began his four-hour set on the final afternoon of the Monterey Pop Festival, in the fabled summer of 1967. As captured in D.A.

The sitar’s metal strings result in tough calluses but yield a delicate sound. The instrument – reminiscent of its Western guitar counterpart – is a plucked instrument with strings and 20 frets, used ...

NORTH HILLSDALE, N.Y. - Music's beauty is enriched by its ability to adapt. On Friday evening at 7: 30 at North Hillsdale UnitedMethodist Church, a unique concert will merge centuries-old music with a ...

NEW DELHI — With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso mentored a Beatle, became a hippie musical icon and spearheaded ...