Pune: Sawani Shende recited a fabulous Ragamala composed by Pandit Bholanath Bhatt. It comprised a journey through 18 ragas, fleetingly touching each raga’s essence. A ragamala in vocal music also ...

T he heart and soul of Indian classical music is the raga, comprising the variants of the seven swaras, and derived from the 72 Melakartha or parent seven note scales, thus enabling composers and ...

Each raga, it is commonly held, in order to be truly efficacious has to be sung or played at a particular hour of the day or night. A more informed listener will even assert that belonging to a ...

BANASHANKARI: Rare ragas from the melakarta will be revived on Sunday through a rendition of Purandaradasa kritis. Renowned Karnatak musician R K Padmanabha has, over the past few months, set ...

Dilip Kumar learnt to play the sitar for his 1960 song Madhuban mein Radhika naache from his film Kohinoor, Shabana Azmi took lessons from a Carnatic singer to learn the basic ragas for her film, ...

Ahead of his Mumbai concert at Ravindra Natya Mandir on July 12, the classical vocalist talks rare ragas, musical honesty, and the science behind dawn melodies Indian classical music has that ...