Mysore/Mysuru: The musical rendition of popular folk song ‘Sojugada Sooju Mallige…’ by over 50 sitar artistes, set a ...
Already a highly respected musician in his own country, Ravi Shankar first burst into European and American popular consciousness in the late 1960s when the Beatles’ lead guitarist, George Harrison, ...
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India's sitar gets its soul from Iran, but its tune comes from physics
The sitar's distinctive sound is produced by a gently curved surface that makes each note bloom before it settles, an effect Indian craftspeople perfected by ear centuries before scientists could ...
The series on taals with the same number of matras or time units started last week with an episode highlighting the 14-matra dhamaar taal. Quite in the manner that this taal is employed to accompany ...
Sitar maestro Purbayan Chatterjee speaks about reimagining ragas, collaborating across genres, mentoring Farhan Akhtar, and ...
In a room five feet by 10 feet, Zia, 64, and his son Imran, 25, attach strings to a wooden frame, a meticulously carved structure with white embellishments. Imran works on the body, inlaying ...
Slash lamented that he couldn’t get away with using more sitar in his music — because it immediately sounded like the Beatles. George Harrison popularized the Indian instrument in the West after ...
At the top of the world, Everest Base Camp sits at a staggering 17,598 feet (5,364 metres) above sea level. Approximately 40,000 people trek to the base camp on the world’s tallest mountain every year ...
Folks around the world may not easily be able to recognize a bansuri, a sarod or a sarangi, but they can instantly identify the reverberating buzz of a sitar- and that’s all thanks to Pandit Ravi ...
Sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar, who has died aged 92, played a leading role in promoting and popularising classical Indian music around the world. He introduced the Beatles to the Indian ...
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