Shivkumar Sharma – Re-inventor of the santoor
Ken Hunt talks to the man behind the mission to ‘free the voice trapped in the mulberry box’
14 September 2010
Author: Ken Hunt
Music critic, journalist, broadcaster and translator who specialises in world music, folk and improvised musics
Classical Bhajans
One of the great and deep joys of being humanist is listening to religious music without being swamped or swept away by religious devotion or faith fervour. Faith has no dominion and music has to stand on musical merits.
14 September 2010
Kala Ramnath
Kala Ramnath belongs to a violin dynasty that embraces – and holds apart – both Indian classical systems. She chose the Hindustani system.
14 September 2010
O Shakuntala!
Debashish Bhattacharya plays a trinity of so-called ‘slide guitars’ made to his own specifications. At his London concert in Milapfest’s Colours of India season, he played two – the biggest or Chaturangui and the smallest.
14 September 2010
Alchemy 2010 — The Music of AR Rahman
AR Rahman is a composer who comes trailing a mean list of plaudits, panegyrics and platitudes behind him. For Alchemy 2010 he summoned a team to match the statistics.
7 June 2010
Soumik Datta and Shivkumar Sharma
A final evening double-bill of Soumik Datta and Shivkumar Sharma at the Darbar Festival
7 June 2010
Shraddhanjali
Since his death in February 2000, the London-based Alla Rakha Foundation has been putting on yearly tributes for the tabla nawaaz Alla Rakha.
7 June 2010
Nine Decades: Volume 1 (1967–68)
Nine Decades: Volume 1 untaps what is planned to be a new stream of releases of audio and visual material from the Ravi Shankar archives
7 June 2010
Flute Encounters: Bansuri to Beatbox
The Elgar Room is a relatively new addition to the RAH that can be set up variously to accommodate 300… Read More
24 February 2010