Unlike Western music, which often follows standardized notation and shorter compositions, Indian Classical Music is deeply improvisational, long-form, and context-driven. A raga is not just a sequence ...

Learn about the history, and future, of the musical art form. Devesh Chandra started playing the tabla (Indian hand drums) at age three, learning from the sounds of Northern Indian classical music ...

Onstage at Ragamala 2018, from left: Ganapathi Ranganathan on kanjira, Patri Satish Kumar on mridangam, and Saraswathi Ranganathan on veena Credit: Courtesy of the City of Chicago In fall 2013, ...

In an era where musical boundaries are increasingly fluid, sitar virtuoso Purbayan Chatterjee stands at the crossroads of ...

“Music itself can be a conduit for the community,” said Shruthi Rajasekar on the connection between humans through hearing and vibration. Rajasekar is the composer behind several works in the coming ...

INDIAN music is a very ancient art and has a three-thousand-year-old tradition behind it. This represents perhaps the longest unbroken record of any cultural tradition we know. Countries like China ...

Indian American composer Reena Esmail is not following in anyone’s footsteps but her own. Pushing boundaries in a male-dominated industry and armed with an attitude of creating your own lane, she has ...

GBH’s All Things Considered host Arun Rath shares many stories of positivity and local heroes in the show’s “Joy Beat” segment. We ask listeners for nominations, but sometimes we instead receive a ...

The session, Flowing Traditions: Indian Folk & Classical Music in a Changing World, brought together Mudgal and Lakha Khan to ...

The violin has a storied place in so much of European classical music. But sometime in the 17th century, it began to intrigue maestros from a very different and ancient music tradition. Fred de Sam ...