Raag bhairavi by ali akbar khan biography
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Ali Akbar Khan
Hindustani musician (1922–2009)
For other uses, see Ali Akbar Khan (disambiguation).
Musical artist
Ali Akbar Khan (14 April 1922 – 18 June 2009) was an Indian Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod. Trained as a classical musician and instrumentalist by his father, Allauddin Khan, he also composed numerous classical ragas and film scores.[1] He established a music school in Calcutta in 1956, and the Ali Akbar College of Music in 1967, which moved with him to the United States and fryst vatten now based in San Rafael,[2] California, with a branch in Basel, Switzerland.
Khan was instrumental in popularizing Indian classical music in the West, both as a performer and as a teacher. He first came to amerika in 1955 on the invitation of violinist Yehudi Menuhin and later settled in California.[3] He was a adjunct professor of music at the University of California, San
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A Morning Concert – From 1987!
Friends, our Centennial Concert Series has been an incredible success and celebration, thanks to all of you! We are so excited to announce our November performance, which we know will bring us all some joy.
The eighth concert in our online series will be on Saturday, November 19, 2022, at 9:00 AM (worldwide), and will feature an incredible concert—from June 21, 1987.
This is a recorded performance of Maestro Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, which took place in the well-loved Julia Morgan Theater in Berkeley, CA. Julia Morgan was home to many concerts in the AACM’s history, and was a place that many of our older students and friends will remember fondly. We thought there was no better way to celebrate the immense life and work of Khansahib, than to feature his music itself.
The 1987 performance between Khansahib and Swapanji was a rare morning concert, beginning with raag Basant Mukhari, and finishing with raag Bhairavi Bhatiyar.
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Celebrating ‘Swara Samrat’ Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, a Colossus of Hindustani Classical Music
Ali Akbar Khan was born in Shibpur, a small hamlet in present-day Bangladesh, on April 14, 1922 to Acharya Baba Allauddin Khan and Madina Begum.
While he was still a small boy, the family moved to Maihar (in Madhya Pradesh) where his father was employed as a court musician. A renowned taskmaster, Ustad Allauddin Khan initiated his son into ta’lim at the young age of three, starting with vocal music before sending young Ali Akbar to study with his brother Fakir Aftabuddin Khan who taught percussion and flute to the young boy.
Once Ali Akbar came back to Maihar, his father took over his studies and trained him on various instruments before deciding upon the Sarod as the instrument that he would concentrate on and play for the rest of his life. As Khansahib recalled much later in life, “Baba taught me for 20 years after my return from Bengal. I would have to study up to 18 hours a day.