I have never met this grand lady but my friend Jon has. I think it was through Buddhadev DasGupta, the sarod player, the brother of
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On different evenings I recently attended Padma Talwarkar’s malhar program at St. Xavier’s and the first public showing of Amol Palekar and Sandhya Gokhales’ documentary
Last night I attend the performance of “Stories in a Song”, a series of 7 vignettes highlighting aspects of Hindustani music. I loved it! I
IIT did a fantastic job of organizing this program. Khansaheb sang superbly, lalita gouri, puriya dhanashri, megh malhar, surmalhar, bahar, sohini, and shahana malhar.
Thanks Devina for directing me to coke studio. And you are absolutely right, the Pakistani version is much better than the Indian. From what I
Tushar Bhatia gave a very nice presentation on the music of Shobha Gurtu. The clips were well-chosen. The panelists (3 students of S.G., including Shobha
I have been learning with Khansaheb, Aslam Hussain Khan for the last six months or so. I can say only wonderful things about him. He
I was asked by Khansaheb if I would accompany him to the Shraadanjali function for Sivanand Patil. I hadn’t even realized he had died. Khansaheb
“The Golden Age of Indian Music” , a docu-drama on the developments in Indian Classical music from 1850 to 1950 was screened at NCPA yesterday
I went to a program on the occasion of Ustad Azmat Hussain Khan’s birth centennary at karnatak sangh this morning. I thought I was quite