One of India’s most inventive musicians returns to his roots. Two years ago, Debashish Bhattacharya demonstrated his global influences with Beyond the Ragasphere, a fusion set that featured dobro star ...

“I wanted to take up a theme not dealt with earlier. Tyagaraja’s appeal lies in his compositions with lyrics that are simple and comprehensible ,” she says. That instrumental music is not given its ...

BENGALURU: Though the concept of an instrumental ensemble or vadya vrinda is essentially Western, it is not unknown to Indian classical music. We have a good number of instrumental ensembles based on ...

Day 6 of academic sessions at The Music Academy began with a lecture titled ‘An examination of Alapa and Thaya’, by Arati Rao. Both Alapa and Thaya have been described in the 17th century treatises, ...