For the past year, percussionist Sameer Gupta’s nonprofit, RootStock Arts, has presented bite-sized programs of classical Indian music at Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery. By turning the ...
For hundreds of centuries, raga has formed the backbone of Indian classical music, offering a guideline for musicians to improvise when performed live. Ragas—which roughly translates to “coloring”—are ...
A classical Indian music festival will take listeners on a 24-hour sonic journey, with the music in each hour aligned with the time of day. The Ragas Live Festival, which will begin at 7 pm on Oct. 19 ...
Composer Reena Esmail breaks down the difference between raga and tala in Indian classical music, and how their function compares to scales and rhythms in Western classical music. Host Scott Yoo then ...
While Margazhi remains rooted in tradition, the way it is being experienced is evolving. Across the city, artists are ...
NEW YORK - Music is rarely the subject of news from Afghanistan. War, terrorism, corruption, and other such topics have dominated the headlines. And if the Taliban - who outlawed all music save ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — As the world gets smaller and more accessible, deep-rooted musical traditions can be shared more readily between musicians of different disciplines. The public has a chance to ...
Last week, five members of a music collective calling themselves Brooklyn Raga Massive, or BRM, were seated in the backyard of co-founder Neel Murgai’s Prospect Heights apartment, sipping coffee and ...
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 ...