Composer Reena Esmail breaks down the difference between raga and tala in Indian classical music, and how their function compares to scales and rhythms in Western classical music. Host Scott Yoo then ...

For the past year, percussionist Sameer Gupta’s nonprofit, RootStock Arts, has presented bite-sized programs of classical Indian music at Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery. By turning the ...

Instead of treating classical music as something formal and ‘strictly for connoisseurs’, emerging musicians are offering younger audiences, seen as reluctant participants in this discourse, another ...

For hundreds of centuries, raga has formed the backbone of Indian classical music, offering a guideline for musicians to improvise when performed live. Ragas—which roughly translates to “coloring”—are ...

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First installment of eight-album series arrives March 20; live performance set for Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival.

The musicality of the final evening was amplified by Raghunandan Panshikar, who brought out the quintessential beauty of Raga Shudh Sarang with Bharat Kamat on the tabla and Gourab Chatterjee on the h ...

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 ...

Mumbai: Revered Jain monk Tirthbhadrasuriji Maharaja has successfully compiled classical ragas crafted by Jain monks over 400 years ago into a new book titled Raagopanishad. The book along with a holy ...

Ustad Nawab Khan and I cooked up the idea of a raga retreat last summer. Our aim: keep it simple, get to the heart of the matter, tell the raga story. This February we welcomed guests to our first ...

Let me, right at the very outset, clarify that an essay on AR Rahman’s use of Indian classical music is not a commentary on Ilaiyaraaja’s use of classical music. In fact, my writing about Rahman does ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Amit Chaudhuri charts his musical journey in a new book, “Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music.” By Joshua Barone Amit Chaudhuri, an ...