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With Zakir Hussain, tabla started on its solo journey

Hussain was loved not only by connoisseurs but also by lay listeners, in Indian and abroad; he has no parallel among Indian classical musicians.

Mumbai, Dec 16 (ANI): (File Photo) Tabla Maestro Zakir Hussain passes away at the age of 73, on Monday. (ANI Photo) (ANI)
Published on Dec 16, 2024 08:16 PM IST

Ram Narayan and the sarangi’s many moods

Ram Narayan was the most passionate advocate of this string instrument that has gone through cultural topographies in the landscape of Indian classical music

Mumbai, India - November 9, 2024: Police personnel performed full state honors during the funeral of a legendary sarangi player Ram Narayan who passed away at the age of 96 in his residence in Bandra, Mumbai. (Photo by Raju Shinde/HT Photo) (Hindustan Times)
Published on Nov 15, 2024 08:31 PM IST

Rajeev Taranath’s sarod played in the shared space of music, poetry

Sarod maestro Pandit Rajeev Taranath, an intellectual romantic in music, passed away aged 91. He was a modern mind in 20th century Karnataka.

Rajeev Taranath’s sarod played in the shared space of music, poetry
Updated on Jun 16, 2024 12:10 PM IST

Ameen Sayani: A voice that brought a nation closer

Armed witih the melody-thread of Bollywood songs, Ameen Sayani was more effective than all the Hindi missionaries who sought to popularise the language

Ameen Sayani was not just a singular golden voice but represented the subcontinent’s longing for an aesthetic of freedom.(HT File Photo/ Vijayanand Gupta)
Updated on Feb 26, 2024 11:24 AM IST

A wah moment in Zakir Hussain’s travels in taal

The music Zakir Hussain makes is a fusion of several traditions, blended by his conviction that music is universal

Ustad Zakir Hussain, Shankar Mahadevan, V Selvaganesh and Ganesh Rajagopalan of Shakti at the 66th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. (PTI)
Published on Feb 09, 2024 10:00 PM IST

Music that was inspired, inventive and traditional

Ustad Rashid Khan’s career had a meteoric rise. With a rich voice, he amalgamated distinct features of multiple khayal traditions in his repertoire

Ustad Rashid Khan. (File phpto)
Published on Jan 12, 2024 12:57 AM IST

All art is ‘art’ificial, why pick on ‘Now and Then

'Now and Then is artificial, of course. But it’s a tribute to an important period in the history of the arts.

FILE -The Beatles, foreground from left, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr on drums perform on the CBS
Published on Nov 11, 2023 10:40 PM IST
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