Mumbai: As the world mourns the passing of tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain this past week, 90 flautists in the city prepare to dedicate the 16th annual Bansuri Utsav, a festival of Flute ...
Long before coaxing gentle Hindustani classical melodies from his bansuri at venues such as London's Royal Albert Hall, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia's .
“Nowadays, you don’t see many solo flautists. Even when you do, they’re often part of a band, playing for a devotional piece, a TV show, or a dance programme, but rarely as mainstream solo ...
At some informal banquets, the flautists may have also offered sexual favors. In the Iliad, Homer describes the sumptuous banquets held by the Greek rulers. A century later the symposium becomes ...
However, vainikas in the Carnatic space have mostly performed with violin players and flautists resulting in the famed ‘veena-venu-violin’ combo. But young veena artistes such as Veena ...
“Christmas in Killarney,” with flautists McKenna Mowry and Donna Lovestrand and solos by Joel Day and Natalie Waltz; and “Libera Me,” with a solo by David Young. “I have the world’s ...
Vishwajith Mattur, Vid. G.S. Ramanujan and Vid. V.S. Ramesh will provide instrumental support on violin, mridanga and morching respectively. On Dec. 14, Vid. Amith Nadig, one of the most promising ...
His close friend, one of India’s most feted flautists Rakesh Chaurasia revealed, “Zakir has been fighting serious illnesses; he was admitted to the San Francisco ICU for heart issues that ...
Thank you for that clarity and for the transition into the next question. Who are some of your favorite flautists? Hariprasad Chaurasia. He’s an Indian player. He’s been around since like the ...