Ravi Shankar, Indian musician, composer and teacher, died on December 11 at the age of 92 following heart surgery at a hospital in San Diego, California. He was a master of the sitar, best known for ...

Ravi Shankar was already revered as a master of the sitar in 1966 when he met George Harrison, the Beatle who became his most famous disciple and gave the Indian musician-composer unexpected ...

Harivallabh Sangeet Sammelan marks its 150th year as one of the oldest and most revered Hindustani classical music festivals ...

The world mourned the death this week of Indian maestro Ravi Shankar, whose name became synonymous with the sitar. Tributes eulogized Shankar as the great connector of the East and West who'd ...

Over the past few weeks, we have been discussing ways in which tabla players choose to begin their accompaniment to the vilambit gats or the slow instrumental compositions set to different taals.

The traditional tools of the trade didn't quite enable musician Vishwa Mohan Bhatt to translate the sounds in his head into something he could play. So Bhatt invented the mohan veena, which from a ...

HOBOKEN – The Monroe Center for the Arts is holding a tribute concert to honor the legendary sitar player Ravi Shankar and his student George Harrison of the Beatles on Saturday, March 30. Shankar is ...

The world mourned the death this week of Indian maestro Ravi Shankar, whose name became synonymous with the sitar. Tributes eulogized Shankar as the great connector of the East and West who'd ...