Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
KOCHI: For fans of Carnatic and Hindustani classical music, it is a feast out there at the Women’s Association Hall. The Navaratri Music Fair is bringing to the city an amazing collection of classical music. The 12-CD set of live ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Hindustani exponent and Sufi singer Zila Khan will lead a five-day workshop on Hindustani music that will be conducted in the city from August 29. Daughter of the renowned sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan, Zila Khan has created a style of her own ...
BwT (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
This is one of my all time favorite: This include all time great artistes and Ustad Zakir Hussain accompanying all of them on Tabla. He teams up with Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia on Flute, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan on Sarod, Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma on Santoor, Ustad Vilayat Khan on Sitar, Pandit Ravi...
BwT (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
NEW YORK: Sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan’s nephew has been charged with sexually assaulting a minor girl in Philadelphia. Shafaatullah Khan case came up for hearing in a court in Bridgeport on Wednesday. Mr. Khan, a Pennsylvania ...
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Thiruvananthapuram, May 8 (IANS) Leading Sufi singer Zila Khan, the daughter of late sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan, Thursday said she will open music schools called Ustad Gahs for children in Mumbai and Kerala. Khan, who will hold a concert here Friday, told reporters that children would be taught all forms of classical music at [...]
Changing Places (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Change and risk-taking are normal aspects of the creative process. They are the lubricants that keep the wheels in motion. A creative act is not necessarily something that has never been done; it is something you haven't done before. — Margaret Mead “The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.” – Julia Cameron “We are the [...]
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 01/19/2008
BJP leader L.K. Advani's proposal that the government honour former PM A.B. Vajpayee with the Bharat Ratna triggered a national debate over state awards. But these awards have very rarely come without controversies
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/29/2007
For most people in the West, classical Indian raga music means one instrument, the sitar, and one player, Ravi Shankar. Quite why Shankar came to be considered the greatest modern sitar player over Vilayat Khan and several others, and the sitar as the primary raga instrument over the sarod or the shenai, is debatable. But serendipity probably played a part--when the Beatles' George Harrison started...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 06/17/2007
On Father's Day, musicians are only too happy to lend their voice in acknowledging how Abbaji and Baba have become metaphors for parenting a musical form.
