The art is usually credited to Amir Khusraw (1244-1325), called the “Nightingale of ... These singers are supported by musicians playing percussion instruments, the dholak or tabla, and a sitar, a ...

When it comes to the decision of making children choose between Arts and a theoretical subject, most parents and teachers ...

Featuring around 170 works from 11 artists across the country, the event highlighted how art can align with environmental ...

Anupama Bhagwat, an internationally acclaimed sitarist, has dedicated her life to preserving Indian classical music. Through ...

Office: Music Arts Center, room 202 Phone: (757) 221-1070 Email ... set in some 150 different ragas (modal structures). Another book project in progress, “Sitar Business: The Life of Musical ...

Music’s in the air, and there’s painting and sculpture in imaginative variety as an art museum gives rare treatment to an ephemeral medium. By Holland Cotter With more than 1,800 works from ...

He gave up dancing in 1938 to study the sitar under the legendary court musician Ustad Allauddin Khan. After completing his studies in 1944, Shankar began giving recitals all over India and working as ...

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We launch full steam ahead into fall festival season, with the Silver Spring Jazz Festival and Rosslyn Jazz Fest vying for attention this weekend, alongside some vital D.C. events, including Adams ...

Stick around for a screening of “A Night at the Pocket.” Proceeds benefit Sitar Arts Center. 7 to 10:30 p.m. $5 donation requested. PJ Harvey is the rare artist to emerge during the height of ...

British musician Jasdeep Singh Degun has said it is "an absolute honour" to become the first sitar player to win a Royal Philharmonic Society Award. Degun, from Leeds, was named best ...

YOU AND I ARE GONNA LIVE FOREVER! ️.” Now, a musician has taken celebrations one step further, sharing a sitar cover of ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’, from the band’s seminal 1995 ...