India's Other Music; Performance to Feature Sounds of Country's South

From: The Washington Post | Date: April 21, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

For most Americans, Indian music means Ravi Shankar, who came to prominence in the West principally because of his connection with the Beatles. Those who have more recently investigated music from the subcontinent may have encountered Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan, the acclaimed Pakistani singer who died in 1997. Both those musicians represent the Hindustani, or north Indian, tradition, the Indian style best known in the United States. But there's also Karnatak (south Indian) music, which will get a rare local hearing Sunday at the University of Maryland's Tawes Theater.

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