Ali Akbar khan Biography

In line with Lord Menuhin, Ali Akbar Khan ( আলী আকবর খান ) initially visited the United States in 1955 and played out a phenomenal show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He likewise made the main Western LP recording of Indian traditional music, and the principal TV execution of Indian music, on Allistair Cooke's Omnibus, planting the seed for the rush of ubiquity of Indian music in the 1960's.

Khansahib established the main Ali Akbar College of Music in Calcutta, India, in 1956. In the mid 1960's he was solicited to show a gathering from Mother Superiors at McGill University in Montreal Canada. With them he investigated the similitudes between Gregorian serenades and the old dhrupad style of North India.

In 1965 he came to Berkeley, California, to instruct for the Asian Society of Eastern Arts. Much to his dismay then that he would stay in California, spreading the lessons of his dad. Perceiving the remarkable intrigue and capacities of his Western understudies, he chose to open his very own school where he could educate all the time.

In 1967, he established the Ali Akbar College of Music, which moved to Marin County, California, the next year. He at that point kept up a customary showing timetable of 6 classes every week, 9 months of the year for the following 40 years.

Khansahib additionally opened a part of his school in Basel, Switzerland, that is still kept running by his follower Ken Zuckerman.

Khansahib created and recorded music for films all through his vocation. He made broadly in India starting with "Aandhiyan" by Chetan Anand (1953) and proceeded to make music for "House Holder" by Ivory/Merchant (their first film), "Khudita Pashan" (or "Hungry Stone") for which he won the "Best Musician of the Year" grant, "Devi" by Satyajit Ray, and in America, "Little Buddha" by Bernardo Bertolucci.

Baba Allauddin Khan deserted such an abundance of material, that Khansahib felt he was continually taking in new things from his dad. Khansahib proceeded with his dad's convention, that of the Sri Baba Allauddin Seni Gharana of Maihar and Rampur, India. Presently, his family and understudies in California are proceeding with this fortune trove of music. Subsequent to verifying the conservation of this tremendous convention, crafted by preparing the future understudies will have something that the old style world still can't seem to involvement; an abundance of sound accounts legitimately from the wellspring of the custom. The music will proceed.