Bismillah Khan, one of India’s most celebrated musicians and known for popularizing the shehnai woodwind instrument (aka the Indian oboe) — died Aug. 21 in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi of a heart ...

Bismillah Khan, 90, a master of the Indian wind instrument called the shehnai, died Monday of a heart attack in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, India. He had been in failing health for several months ...

It was a meeting with Ustad Bismillah Khan which AR Rahman can never forget - the legendary shehnai player had flown down to Chennai in 2004 for concert at the Amir Khusro Academy. "That was just two ...

For most people in the West, classical Indian raga music means one instrument, the sitar, and one player, Ravi Shankar. Quite why Shankar came to be considered the greatest modern sitar player over ...

For most people in the West, classical Indian raga music means one instrument, the sitar, and one player, Ravi Shankar. Quite why Shankar came to be considered the greatest modern sitar player over ...