Word: hindustani
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like American jazz, the Hindustani music of India is improvisational. The raga is the mode or theme on which the performer improvises spontaneously, developing 95 per cent of the piece originally. It is an unwritten, oral tradition that has been handed down through the generations since about...
...American audience last Saturday, and his unassuming honesty-coupled with his virtuoso elegance-was received with great enthusiasm. The small size of the audience permitted a certain intimacy which provided the atmosphere in which Indian music was meant to be heard. The Brandeis listeners probably sensed little of the Hindustani culture in which the raga is firmly rooted, but they undoubtedly came away with a feeling for the romantic delicacy of Indian music well-performed...