One of India's most versatile classical musicians, Pandit Kishan Maharaj, passed away on Sunday night at Varanasi. He was 85 years old. He died after being admitted to hospital following a paralytic ...

Anindo Chatterjee is a tabla player of the Farukhabad Gharana and is famous for his impeccable precision, rhythms, and presentation. He received tutelage from the revered Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh and ...

The entry of the tabla in an instrumental recital begins when the soloist establishes the composition after a long or short aalaap in the raag chosen for delineation. The first few phrases of the ...

The Grammy Award-winning Ghazal Ensemble reunite to perform their distinctive mix of Persian and Hindustani classical music, recalling age-old traditions which have been historically and culturally ...

With Nowruz just around the corner, The Skirball Cultural Center and the Irvine Barclay Theatre will celebrate the Persian New Year with two very special concerts by the Grammy-nominated Ghazal ...

In the next segment of our series on tabla accompaniment to instrumental music, we will listen to some tracks that feature instrumental versions of the thumri and dadra forms. Instrumentalists prefer ...

New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI) Legend has it that a competition was held in a Mughal court between two pakhawaj players. The losing maestro was so enraged that he smashed his pakhawaj, a two-sided percussion ...