Indian Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan is on a new mission - to make American students “realise and feel” music as they learn the difference between Indian and European music.

To do so “you just make them sing” in India’s good old oral tradition, Amjad Ali Khan told IANS on phone about his interaction with American students at a summer school at New Mexico State University, Albuquerque.

Initially the students were a bit shy as they do a lot of writing and reading of music in the Western tradition. But committed and dedicated to music as they are, Amjad’s American pupils are discovering the “world between writing and reading music”.

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