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 ...

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 ...

Jazz and Indian ragas share common ground in their traditional use of improvisation. They are often talked about in compatible terms, but Ravi Shankar, for one, did not believe that ragas could be ...

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 ...

Globally acclaimed pianist and composer Charu Suri only discovered jazz four years ago. Suri, who kicks off a four-night residency at Detroit’s Cliff Bell’s jazz club Thursday, March 7, had been a ...

The event was organised in honour of Prabha Atre, one of the most revered figures in Indian classical music. The evening had ...

You can see the look of deference in Rick Henderson’s eyes whenever he speaks about Indian music. That’s because his teacher is in the room.Henderson, a local raga enthusiast and longtime player of ...

INDIAN music is a very ancient art and has a three-thousand-year-old tradition behind it. This represents perhaps the longest unbroken record of any cultural tradition we know. Countries like China ...

The poetry of the songs from South India was shaped by scholars such as Thyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar and Shyama Shastri, so the songs naturally turned devotional, invoking Krishna and Lakshmi, ...

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 ...