Eight years ago, tabla maestro Zakir Hussain had narrated how his father Alla Rakha had welcomed him into this world by putting the musical instrument’s rhythms into his ears when asked to recite prayers. Mumbai-born Zakir Hussain passed away at a hospital in San Francisco due to complications arising out of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, his family said on Monday. Alla …
As part of the golden jubilee celebrations of renaming of Karnataka “Karnataka Sambhrama-50”, a musical play on the life of legendary vocalist Pandit Basavaraj Rajaguru will be held in Dharwad on November 24. Basavaraj Rajaguru National Memorial Trust has organised the staging of the musical play ‘Naa Rajaguru’ at Srujana Rangamandir on Karnatak College Campus in Dharwad at 5.30 p.m. …