An old joke goes as follows: A young music student, visiting New York City, asks, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” The answer comes quickly: “Practice.” To become—and stay—great in music (or any ...

Subramanian is a technology executive and classic music teacher. She lives in Carmel Valley. One of my earliest childhood memories is of listening to and learning the South Indian classical music ...

The "raga" is the melodic form, but it is not just a scale, Shankar says. There are roughly 72 parent scales. And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six ...

Princeton based sitarist Hidayat Hussain Khan finds himself in an envious crossroad. A direct descendant and proponent of one of the most coveted lineages of eastern classical music, he harbors a rare ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Mahesh Kale to present YĀTRĀ at Mahindra Percussion Festival 2026 He blends tradition with accessibility in Indian classical music Kale credits diverse influences and values honesty in performance Did ...

Avartan Music Festival to bring together Indian classical performers The fourth annual Avartan Music Festival will take place Sunday at Schoenberg Hall. Created in 2012 by UCLA alumna Gaayatri ...

Here's a typical Saturday night for a music fan in Manhattan: You go grab some dinner, and then go to a show. You hang out there for an hour or two, enjoy the music and then leave, right? But what ...

The "raga" is the melodic form, but it is not just a scale, Shankar says. There are roughly 72 parent scales. And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six ...