As you probably heard by now, the great sitar player Ravi Shankar died yesterday at the age of 92. His music arrived in most American ears thanks to George Harrison and the Beatles, whose interest ...

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 ...

When Ravi Shankar, sitar virtuoso, passed away last December there was an international outpouring of tributes and writings on his life and contributions to world music. The Indian maestro, who was ...

An eclectic group of people sat on floor cushions in a Los Feliz home earlier this month for a concert to mark famed sitar player Ravi Shankar’s 90th birthday. In the same room where Shankar played in ...

India is a country rich in tradition and skill. Be it the ancient dance forms that entertain and inform people even today, to the forms of ‘nataks’ and ‘jatras’ that show society a mirror, Indian art ...

Ed Sheeran, during his India tour, shared a video of himself playing the sitar for the first time, delighting fans by performing a sitar rendition of 'Shape of You.' Guided by Indian sitar player ...

LOS ANGELES — A few months ago, for what felt like the thousandth time, I tweaked my bedroom/music studio/office into just office for a Zoom meeting. On my trestle desk, I angled my computer so no one ...

A new, ambient sound has arrived and it stars Santa Barbara–raised songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Maxton Hunter and his journey learning the sitar. The tracks “Dhara” and “Jaya” were released ...

Renowned Sitar maestro Purbayan Chatterjee, a torchbearer of Indian classical music, has brought the magic of the sitar to life in the latest season of Bandish Bandits on Amazon Prime Video. The track ...

Sitar player Ravi Shankar died Tuesday at the age of 92. Brian Q. Silver, a sitar player with over 40 years of experience, talks about playing the unique instrument and how Shankar popularized the ...