Hear how Native American composers mix their heritage with techiques passed down from the European classical tradition. A small but growing number of American Indian musicians are embracing classical ...

Learn about the history, and future, of the musical art form. Devesh Chandra started playing the tabla (Indian hand drums) at age three, learning from the sounds of Northern Indian classical music ...

The "raga" is the melodic form, but it is not just a scale, Shankar says. There are roughly 72 parent scales. And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six ...

WATCHUNG -- Area residents are invited to explore the music and people of India at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Watchung Arts Center, 18 Stirling Road. Tickets are $16 for members, $18 for ...

Bollywood movies of the 1940s - 1950s often signalled weddings with the sound of a Shehnai. This started to change in the decades that followed - replaced first by peppy Bollywood numbers where the ...

The rhythms of tradition met the breeze of nostalgia when Pt Tanmay Bose returned to Hyderabad for A Soulful Breeze, a concert at Ravindra Bharati hosted by the Jadavpur University Alumni Association.

The Shriram Shankarlal Music Festival 2025, taking place from March 21-23 in New Delhi, will feature three evenings of Indian classical music. Performances include Rahul Sharma on Santoor, Padma Shri ...

Zakir Hussain, one of India’s most accomplished classical musicians who defied genres and introduced the tabla to global audiences, died Dec. 15 at a hospital in San Francisco. He was 73. The cause ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Zakir Hussain, one of India’s most accomplished classical musicians who defied genres and introduced tabla to global audiences, died on Sunday. He was 73. The Indian classical music ...