Her father and guru, Allauddin Khan, steered her towards playing the surbahar — an instrument whose deep voice, meditative quality, larger size and difficulty in mastery make it extremely rare ...

His music, played on the sitar and the surbahar (a deep-toned sitarlike instrument that his great-grandfather invented), represents the fullest flowering of the mysterious polytonal lyricism of ...

Ustad Shafaat Khan, a world-renowned Indian master of the sitar, surbahar and tabla, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, in the Carter Center for Worship and Music at Bridgewater College.

It resulted in his never achieving more than being the second son. Easily the finest surbahar player of his time, Ustad Imrat Khan was equally adept at sitar and was acknowledged as being ...

Mumbai: Akash Ganga is a building in Breach Candy which once housed the city’s first acoustically designed concert hall, but on its sixth floor lived a reclusive surbahar player who avoided the ...

Around the room are paintings and bronze busts of Allauddin Khan, her father and guru, and her legendary surbahar. But it is a small framed sketch in the corner that catches my eye. “That was ...

Enayat Khan’s beautiful old surbahar gets a new lease of life, thanks to his grandson As unseasonal clouds gathered over the massive ramparts of Qila Mubarak, a question mark hung over the ...

Related to tabla maestro Pt. Kishan Maharaj on his maternal side, the sitar and surbahar exponent who has been performing for over two decades is the recipient of several awards and titles that ...

This is a rare recording of a surbahar duet by Annapurna Devi and Shankar. Two of the foremost disciples of Allauddin Khan, the founder of the Maihar gharana, both performers in this live concert ...

Annapurna Devi was one of them,” says Nityanand Haldipur, a disciples of the acclaimed surbahar player. On Tuesday, a documentary on her life was screened at Indian Institute for Human ...

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