WHY: Xpress asked Shabda Kahn, what is unique about Raga music and the experience that it offers listeners? Shabda Kahn: Here is a quote from my grand teacher, Hazrat Inayat Khan, that answers the ...

Drexel University’s Main Building will be the site for the first 24-hour North Indian Hindustani classical music concert, the Raga Samay Festival, to take place in the Western Hemisphere in decades.

The Music Academy, in association with the TAG Corporation and Ramu Endowments, has been conducting the raga identification competition for Carnatic music rasikas. This event, held annually, is the ...

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 stars of classical Indian music will perform for 24 straight hours at Drexel University starting Saturday night. The round-the-clock Raga Samay Festival might perplex some “world music” ...

The “13th Odissi Raaga Mahotsav and Awards Ceremony – 2025” organized by Guru Gopal Panda Odissi Academy has been formally inaugurated at Utkal Rangamanch located in the ...

Composer Reena Esmail breaks down the difference between raga and tala in Indian classical music, and how their function compares to scales and rhythms in Western classical music. Host Scott Yoo then ...

Pandit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar, one of the best-known sarod players of his generation belonging to Senia Maihar Gharana, won the prestigious ITC SRA Award (2017) recently. Almost all the ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — As the world gets smaller and more accessible, deep-rooted musical traditions can be shared more readily between musicians of different disciplines. The public has a chance to ...

Over morning coffee, a stressed professional opens an artificial intelligence (AI) app. Within seconds, it suggests a five-minute breathing exercise, a calming Raga music track—musical forms known to ...