Amitabh Bachchan, busy composing music in his free time, has decided to learn sitar and sarod. "Okaay! So am getting into the business of acquiring a sitar and a sarod soon enough so I may have the ...

Since not much has been obtained in writing over the centuries about the origin of sitar, it is but natural to find controversial versions of its origin. I only play the sitar as it exists today, and ...

Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of ...

A group of music students, some of them holding guitars and other instruments, sat in a semi-circle, listening intently for ninety minutes as the man with the sitar spoke and played for them. His name ...

“Play a set of swaras and forget them. Create a fresh set of swaras and forget them again, never note down, never memorise,” my guru says, while teaching kalpanaswaras. I was awe-struck. While every ...

Anthony Curmi's musical career has changed considerably ever since he decided to go the music he loved listening to when he was young. A precocious and energetic guitarist with hard rock band Blade ...

Think of India's best known sitar players and two great names are likely to be uppermost in the average listener's mind — Pandit Ravi Shankar, who at 90-plus is still a huge draw for audiences across ...