Don’t judge Gabby La La by her small stature. Or her cuteness, for that matter. Because if you do, you might overlook the fact that she’s a sitar virtuoso, a master of the theremin and a mean ...

Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of ...

Johnathan Cilia interviews Glenn Sacco, one of Malta’s few sitar players. Similar to cuisine, the stringed instruments of the world are usually enhanced with the distinctive local flavour of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The COVID pandemic and lockdown walloped sitar player Anoushka Shankar hard. The isolation. The unknown. The fear of the future.

NPR posted the other day about an app that promised to simulate a sitar, the stringed instrument used mainly in Indian music. So just for you, dear readers, we downloaded it [iTunes link] and gave it ...

“Beauty” seemed somehow insufficient a description for the sounds that came from Ravi Shankar’s sitar in a concert hall. It was as if nature itself were being replicated on the stage, whether it was ...

For some, the sound of the sitar instantly brings back patchouli-scented memories of the 1960s: tie-dyed skirts and long-playing records. It can seem like a trendy blip, redolent of a time when the ...

LOS ANGELES — A few months ago, for what felt like the thousandth time, I tweaked my bedroom/music studio/office into just office for a Zoom meeting. On my trestle desk, I angled my computer so no one ...

Almost every article written about sitarist Shahid Parvez describes him as one of India’s finest young musicians, so it’s a bit of a shock to read the fine print and discover that he turns 59 next ...

The COVID pandemic and lockdown walloped sitar player Anoushka Shankar hard. The isolation. The unknown. The fear of the future. “I needed a place to put some vulnerable feelings, not to get too ...