Badstue will climb the podium and wield the baton to present music from Scandinavian repertoire, including compositions by ...

On Tuesday, the great conductor Zubin Mehta celebrated his 89 th birthday. The date, April 29, is special in the world of music as it also marks the birth anniversaries of jazz legend Duke ...

He was accompanying Pandit Ravi Shankar in Mumbai in a concert that featured the sitar maestro with the European Union Youth Orchestra conducted by the famous conductor Zubin Mehta.

Ravi Shankar’s compositional opus is huge and diverse; beginning with his work with Yehudi Menuhin on West Meets East that earned them a Grammy, the Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra commissioned by ...

Indian-American musician Chandrika Tandon, 71, wins her first Grammy for Best New Age Album, celebrating music's power to spread joy and light. | Latest News India ...

Back in the late 80s, a bunch of us just out of school, in the typical spirit of restless teen angst, were feeling unsatisfied with the music that was on offer those days. Film music, especially ...

Ravi Shankar was oblivious to winning two Grammys. To conclude, Anoushka Shankar said, “He didn't even know he had two Grammys. He thought he had just one.

From 1967: At thirty-one, the beloved young maestro has already mastered Western classical music—and flummoxed the generations who thought a Bombay native could never do so.

CNBC-TV18.com Published on Nov 10, 2024 Sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar was the first ever Indian musician to enter the Grammy’s. He won 5 Grammy awards in total, with the first one being for his album ...

I can think of Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, Salman Rushdie, and Zubin Mehta. Each of them is an outstanding Indian who soared to the peak of his career.

I have tried. I was very close to Pandit ji Ravi Shankar. He opened his heart to me. I can never forget my times with him (chokes with tears). He wrote the first concerto for the London Symphony which ...

Over the years, Zubin maintained his close friendship with pianist Daniel Barenboim and violinist Pinchas Zukerman, besides famed sitar maestro Pt Ravi Shankar, with whom he worked on the ‘Sitar ...