Indian music gives a perfect background for this. The Carnatic ragas have so much versatility,” Abby said on a phone call from Toronto.

Western instruments have long been part of Carnatic music’s landscape. The violin is credited as one of the earliest to be adapted into Carnatic concerts in the early 19th century by Baluswami ...

They all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much an independent institution as T M Krishna is an individual musician. In drawing those red lines for the Academy management, they do not ...

Carnatic violinist Arun Ramamurthy is making the world safe for raga. Raised in a highly cultured South Indian family in central New Jersey, he started to learn the classical music tradition by ...

It's time for a gig where the north meets the south again. Two maestros who have been praised by critics and their peers alike will liven up the stage with monsoon-based ragas. Ustad Rashid Khan ...

An excerpt from ‘Raga Harmony: Harmonic Structures and Tonalities in Indian Classical Music’, by L Subramaniam.

Spotlight on the improvisational forms of raga exposition in Carnatic music Musician-scholar Arati Rao and Mohiniyattam exponent Neena Prasad delved into ragas and expressions in their presentations.

As violinists, the RaGa sisters have accompanied several greats of Carnatic music like DK Pattammal and Dr M Balamuraikrishna. “To play for them was a blessing,” says Ranjani.

Mahesh Mahadev, who has composed the music for several devotional albums and for Andrea Jeremiah's Maligai, has come up with a new raga called Sri Tyagaraja, named after one of the Carnatic music ...

CHENNAI: Bold voice, command over ragas and excellent academic credentials. Immersed in Carnatic music for over four decades, well-known vocalist S Sowmya began her journey as a child prodigy at ...