"Having grown up in Canada, I didn't get a lot of exposure to my own culture. I was singing along to Avril Lavigne and Green Day, and it wasn't until one day I was watching a Bollywood movie that the ...

The Malhar Utsav of the Delhi University, organised annually by the Music Department, Faculty of Music & Fine Arts; offers a rich variety of Malhars, both in vocal and instrumental music by well known ...

This article originally appeared in Issue 7 of Crawdaddy in December, 1966. A major source of innovation in any art is external influences, influences derived from widespread, eclectic origins outside ...

Our classical music is basically melody and rhythm. There is no harmony in our music, that is to say, it does not have a combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes. Any harmonic implications ...

BENGALURU: Though the concept of an instrumental ensemble or vadya vrinda is essentially Western, it is not unknown to Indian classical music. We have a good number of instrumental ensembles based on ...

Compact disc; analog recordings. Program notes by Philippe Bruguierre in English and French (11 p. : port.) in container. Compact disc. 101 Raga Darbari Kanada: Alap / Asad Ali Khan, Gopal Das, ...

There is a wealth of ragas in the broad field of Indian classical music, each with the special capacity to arouse feelings and alter the listener's mood. Among them, some ragas are well known for ...

The instrumental trio of Vijaya College of Music won the hearts of the connoisseurs at the ‘Nadajyothi Suvarna Sangeetha Sambhrama’ last week. Seasoned artistes H K Venkatram, G Ravikiran and Ashwin ...

US-based Indo-American pianist and composer Charu Suri, who earned a nomination at the 68th Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for her record Shayan (deep sleep), says she had ...

When two consummate artistes come together — one, a vocalist whose singing is an ode to fearless experimentation, and the other, a flautist, who sculpts melodic contours with grace — rasikas are ...