Renowned sarod maestro Ustad Irfan Khan is the eighth-generation and last descendant of India’s Lucknow–Shahjahanpur Gharana. In this podcast, he shares insights into the distinctive style and rich ...

The sarod, a lute-like instrument widely used in folk music across Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh, has nearly fallen silent in Pakistan. The stringed instrument has featured in several ...

Photo of Juan Moreno Moya’s portrait of Kalyan Mukherjea Despite the dominant rhetoric about the antiquity of Indian classical music, many instruments used in performance, not to mention some of the ...

Amjad Ali Khan, a virtuoso on the lute-like sarod, started his first American tour in the mid-1960s. From the age of 6, he had performed in his native India, and teenage Khan was ready to bring the 25 ...

Amjad Ali Khan is a superstar in his native India, but his chosen instrument would make a good crossword clue for many New Orleanians: Lute-like, 25-string instrument with a history that dates back ...

Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan has a suggestion for aspiring musicians that if they want a career then they should not learn classical music. He added that classical music is a lifelong service ...

Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash are waiting to take their creation, the Erod, to the world, says Aditi Divekar. IMAGE: Ayaan and Amaan Ali Bangash. Photograph: Kind courtesy riotartists.com ...

The performer will be accompanied by sarod players Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan and tabla players Anubrata Chatterjee and Vineet Vyas Sunday night as well. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan is a world-class ...

Originally, the term ‘gharana’ referred to a khaandaan or family of professional musicians with successive generations involved in the performance and teaching of a specific style of Hindustani vocal ...

LSG HOSTED AMJAD ALI KHAN AND SONS AMAAN ALI BANGASH AND AYAAN ALI BANGASH AT TAJ BENGAL FOR A TUNEFUL EVENING. ONLY t2 WAS THERE From music to discipline, privilege to pressure, sarod maestro Amjad ...