Each musical instrument has its own melodic potential and innate charm, which has to be awakened by the caressing touch of some musical genius. For the romantic and resonant santoor came in the person ...

SRINAGAR: In a modest workshop filled with the fragrance of seasoned wood, 78-year-old Ghulam Mohammad Zaz continues a craft his family has preserved for eight generations — the making of the Kashmiri ...

The four-member Santoor Instrumental Music group will begin their Egypt tour with a performance at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina before visiting Cairo, Minya and Beni Suef As part of the 14th ...

The santoor player was in Bengaluru recently for a performance While people enjoy listening to the instrument, there are very few musicians who take up the task of playing it. “That is because the ...

Desh, a word that many would relate in the Indian context only to terms such as country, nation and nation state, has in fact other connotations too. In musical parlance, it appears as the name of a ...

andit Shiv Kumar Sharma, who died last week, was undoubtedly the greatest player of the santoor in the subcontinent. This can be said with certainty because he created that instrument that he excelled ...

Javed Akhtar said, “In most cases it is the expertise and control over a musical instrument that brings respect, recognition and fame to the player. In Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharmaji's case the opposite ...

Today, the world celebrates World Music Day, or Fête de la Musique—a tribute to music and musicians everywhere, and their power to connect people across cultures, languages, and borders. Just a day ...

A maestro is one who has perfected the established techniques and aspects of music. But what do you call someone who gives music a new identity altogether and join the ranks of Mozart, Baray Ghulam ...