The age old 'guru-shishya' tradition is still going strong at the Dhrupad Sansthan in Bhopal. Students come in from around the world, looking to learn classical music and they are handpicked by the Ustads. ...
09:01 AM, Mar 06, 2013
Indian classical musician and Pandit Ravi Shankar's disciple Pandit Barun Kumar Pal joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the impact of Pandit Ravi Shankar on Indian classical music. ...
01:36 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Did Pandit Ravi Shankar show the way as to how the classical arts can be kept alive in the contemporary world? ...
11:59 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who is grieving the demise of Pandit Ravi Shankar, says he was puzzled to receive the sitar maestro's call for the first time a week before the music legend's demise. He never knew it would be his last. "A strange feeling crawls within me. Just last week his wife Sukanyaji had sent a message to me on my mobile, while I transited from Marrakech, Morocco to Florence...
06:13 PM, Dec 13, 2012
He will be remembered as a global icon for Indian Music, philosophy and culture. He took India to the world. ...
03:36 PM, Dec 12, 2012
In this video Pandit Ravi Shankar speaks about the evolution of the sitar and Indian music. ...
01:10 PM, Dec 12, 2012
With the death of Pandit Ravi Shankar, passes an era of Hindustani classical music - an era which saw the Indian musical artform going global. ...
12:29 PM, Dec 12, 2012
New Delhi: The "parampara" (generational) tradition in classical music is alive and flourishing. The capital was witness to this when sitar maestro Imrat Khan, brother of legendary exponent Vilayat Khan of the Imdadkhani (Etawah) gharana, introduced his youngest son, Azmat Ali Khan, to the audience here as the newset prodigy of the Khan brood at the ongoing five-day Delhi Classical Music Festival. The Imdadkhani gharana of sitar and surbahar music...
03:47 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Vrindavan (Uttar Pradesh): After years of male domination, the stage is opening up for women to sing dhrupad, a Hindustani classical music genre. In 10 years, the tribe of women dhrupad exponents performing in soirees or as standalone musicians has grown, say brothers Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha, among the country's most popular exponents of the genre. The brothers, in their mid-50s, were in this temple town recently for the Swami...
03:13 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Find out about the journey of singer KJ Yesudas who defied boundaries and sang in almost all Indian languages. ...
11:44 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Dharwad: Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan, whose unique style of playing the instrument with his finger nails has enthralled audiences worldwide, has been presented the Mallikarjun Mansur award in recognition of his achievements. "I deem it a great honour bestowed on me. It is a big award for me," Khan, a Padma Vibushan awardee, told a packed audience on receiving the award at a function here last night. Khan showered...
04:00 PM, Jan 04, 2012
BANGALORE: The Academy of Music, Chowdaiah Memorial Hall, has drawn up a five-day musical extravaganza from November 23. Well known musicians will be honoured on the concluding day of the festival. Sangeetha Kalanidhi Madurai T N Seshagopalan, Vidwan R N Thyagarajan and Vidwan R N Tharanathan, popularly known as Rudrapatnam Brothers have been chosen for Sri K K Murthy Memorial Chowdaiah Award-2011. Seshagopalan will be awarded with a cash prize...
09:41 AM, Nov 21, 2011
New Delhi: Unquestionably one of the greatest exponents of Carnatic music, MS Subbulakshmi, or 'MS' to her fans, is an icon even to a younger generation brought up on fusion and rock music, the organiser of a music festival to mark the singers 95th birth anniversary said on Friday. 'Madura Geetham' is being held for the fourth consecutive year to mark the birth anniversary of legendary singer MS, the first...
12:48 PM, Sep 16, 2011
In my thirties, as a parent whose kids gorged on a diet of the Cartoon Network, the inevitable Tom & Jerry, Looney Tunes and Bug Bunny especially, some sounds of what I saw on the small screen remained with me as a precursor to a larger education. Later, with an emergent interest in Western Classical Music, I got hold of a collection of the Great Western Classicals, and found that...
01:35 PM, Jun 20, 2011
Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, who passed away on January 24, and his works are an integral part of Indian classical music. ...
12:51 PM, Feb 04, 2011
People who worked with her say she was extremely generous, humble. ...
03:34 AM, Jul 22, 2009
Gangubai Hangal was one of the last links with the last century. ...
04:53 PM, Jul 21, 2009
Gangubai was undergoing treatment for cardiac and respiratory problems. ...
08:38 AM, Jul 21, 2009
The Hindustani classical music exponent died in California. ...
02:55 PM, Jun 19, 2009
