As the monsoons hit India, one eagerly looks forward to hearing the several extant raga malhars that exist all over North India. Malhar is a raga that is said to bring rains, and is traditionally ...

I think every classical and semi-classical musician loves raga Malhar because it’s only played during the rainy season. I find it quite romantic and the notes of the raga have been set for ages.

Rains are a cause for celebration in India and there is nothing better than welcoming it with music and song. Classical music lovers herald the arrival of the first monsoon showers with a festival ...

Here is a raga with weighty folklore behind it. Tansen, having lit a thousand lamps with his rendition of Raga Deepak, became so hot that even a dip in the river didn't cool him down. He then embarked ...

In its series of Purnima concerts, held every month on or around the night of full moon, IGNCA presented Ustad Nishat Khan’s sitar recital. Entitled “The Music of the Monsoons – the Magic of the ...

New Delhi, July 23 (IANSlife) Aptly coinciding with the monsoon, an ongoing virtual exhibition captures the many moods of Malhar - from an uncontrollable storm to a sense of longing, wonderment and ...

In the North Indian musical tradition, the link of raga Malhar with the monsoons is so widespread that recently a pan Indian retail chain called its new monsoon collection Malhar. Throughout North ...

Sangeet Premi Mandal Kalwa-Thane, the oldest music circle in the city organised an evening concert to celebrate Malhar Utsav at Shubham Karoti Hall this week. On this occasion Jai Dhaigude-Pande, a ...

Pancham Nishad’s three-day ‘Sarang Malhar’ festival brings young classical maestros together to explore the deep connections and contrasts between two timeless ragas Sarang and Malhar are two ragas ...

Two centuries ago, Muthuswami Dikshitar sang a composition that is said to have brought downpours to a place in what is today south-central Tamil Nadu. Legend has it that the skies opened up in such a ...

The laws of music are ever so mysterious compared to those of nature. How else does a set of notes, employed in a specific combination in a raga, evoke thunder, lightning and rain? Performed by ...

Legend has it that musician Tansen could make thunderclouds pour rain by singing the monsoon raga Megh Malhar. Though you may or may not witness that happening at this concert, you can catch musicians ...