“We’re doing things a little differently this time,” conductor Carolyn Kuan confided at the start of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s “Scheherezade & Shankar” Masterworks concert. Next to the base of ...

Among other things, Shankar, who'd taken on the Pennsylvania-born Slawek as a disciple a decade before in the holy Indian city of Banaras, wanted to borrow one of Slawek's sitars. His was naturally ...

Family and tradition figure prominently in Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's season finale when sitarist Anoushka Shankar makes her LACO debut, under Music Director Jaime Martín's baton, with a ...

It’s one thing to have a musical pedigree. It’s another to belong to a centuries-old Indian musical dynasty. Shafaatullah Khan, the son of Imrat Khan and the nephew of Vilayat Khan, was singing ...

Alongside conductor Alpesh Chauhan, Fazal Qureshi was joined on stage by soloists Niladri Kumar (sitar) and Rakesh Chaurasia (bansuri). The Triple Concerto for tabla, sitar and bansuri is the second ...