Ravi Shankar

Students danced and banged on the drums all day Friday, a culmination of an artist in residence program with renowned musician Randy Armstrong and Indian dancer and instructor, Jasmine Shah. For a week, seventh graders at York Middle School have learned about Africa, India and other cultures through music and dance, and in their regular classes of science, social studies, English, French and yes, even math. Read More

Students danced and banged on the drums all day Friday, a culmination of an artist in residence program with renowned musician Randy Armstrong and Indian dancer and instructor, Jasmine Shah. For a week, seventh graders at York Middle School have learned about Africa, India and other cultures through music and dance, and in their regular classes of science, social studies, English, French and yes, even math. Read More

Pioneering Grammy award winner Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is taking Indian classical music to new corners of the world through his innovative string instrument, mohan veena, a fusion of the guitar and the veena. Read More

We are taking in our hands capsules made of different moments of the illustrious career of yet another virtuoso pioneer who retired into oblivion so that floods of new tides can take the helm. Read More

So John McLaughlin was thrilled to be invited to receive the Hafiz Ali Khan Award. Read More

FR, bass on all tracks; Michel Delaporte, percussion ("Breiz"); Jean-Pierre Drouet, percussion ("Poucha Dass"); Jean-Pierre Drouet, Christian Garros, and Armand Molinetti, various percussion including tabla and marimba ("Thyosanne"). Read More

Twenty-seven-year-old Alam Khan admits that he was emotionally adrift for a time while he grieved for his father, the great North Indian classical musician Ali Akbar Khan, who died in June. "I buried my father, and the next day I turned 27," he remembered one recent afternoon, sitting cross legged on a Persian carpet in the main classroom at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael. Read More

Twenty-seven-year-old Alam Khan admits that he was emotionally adrift for a time while he grieved for his father, the great North Indian classical musician Ali Akbar Khan, who died in June. "I buried my father, and the next day I turned 27," he remembered one recent afternoon, sitting cross legged on a Persian carpet in the main classroom at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael. Read More

It's been nearly 20 years since my fateful meeting with Yehudi Menuhin in the Pasadena Hilton Hotel. Read More

Tenet , the band by and including Jed Fucking Simon. Read More