Music That Tugs At Heartstrings
By SAMIDHA JOGLEKAR During the long and anxious months of quarantine through the pandemic, music was a reliable companion. In...
Making Instruments Sing
By SAMIDHA JOGLEKAR I have long contemplated the human voice for its potential as a musical instrument. According to the...
Two Torchbearers of Raag Music in Concert
By MOHAMED KHAKI In his online article, The scientific mystery of why humans love music, Brian Reznick writes, “From an...
Exiting the Pandemic with Exciting Programming
By MOHAMED KHAKI By now, activity across Canada is almost back to normal; the uncertainty that existed for most of...
Pandit Shivkumar Sharma: A Legend and His Music
By MOHAMED KHAKI Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, who passed away recently, is credited with raising the stature of the santoor from...
A Close Encounter of the Exhilarating Kind
By SUJIT SEN My annual visits to Kolkata, the “City of Joy”, are always pleasurable as I immerse myself in...
Sarod Master Steve Oda In His Guru’s Footsteps
By MOHAMED KHAKI Just a few months after immigrating to Canada in 1976, I attended my first live concert, a...
Alvida, Didi
By MOHAMED KHAKI Lata Mangeshkar’s recent passing at the age of 92 was met with an outpouring of grief in...
Blue Planet: Linking Music to Environment
By MOHAMED KHAKI Raag-Mala Toronto is partnering with First Edition Arts (FEA) to present Blue Planet, a four-month digital series...
The Begum and I
By MOHAMED KHAKI Diwana banana hai to diwana bana de, varna taqdeer tamasha na bana de. One can only imagine...
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