Sitar player Ravi Shankar died Tuesday at the age of 92. Brian Q. Silver, a sitar player with over 40 years of experience, talks about playing the unique instrument and how Shankar popularized the ...

Of the many string instruments currently in vogue in the sub-continent, sitar is perhaps the most popular musical device for venting creative melodic expressions. It is sophisticated instrument, which ...

Sitar player Purbayan Chatterjee talks about his love for the instrument You are known for amalgamating traditional Indian classical music with contemporary world music genres. What encouraged you to ...

Dadpur, almost 50 km from Kolkata, is a village in Uluberia where the day begins with birdsong and the notes of the sitar. Every person in the village starts their day with their thoughts attuned to ...

Vadodara businessman Bharat Desai's 'Bharatar', the electronic sitar, revolutionizes music with features like tonal quality adjustments. Desai's interdisciplinary research ensures the survival of ...

As The Beatles were recording the groundbreaking Revolver album, an odd thing occurred in the annals of rock ‘n’ roll history. On “Taxman,” a track written and sung by George Harrison, Paul McCartney ...

By Mongabay.com The tanpura is synonymous with Indian classical music. The sitar-like musical instrument has a long, wooden ...

As you probably heard by now, the great sitar player Ravi Shankar died yesterday at the age of 92. His music arrived in most American ears thanks to George Harrison and the Beatles, whose interest ...

As you probably heard by now, the great sitar player Ravi Shankar died yesterday at the age of 92. His music arrived in most American ears thanks to George Harrison and the Beatles, whose interest ...