Ali Akbar Khan

Navaratri Festival: Concert Broadcast No. 2

Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 4:00pm
WESU Middletown 88.1FM

As part of the 44th annual Navaratri Festival at Wesleyan, WESU Middletown 88.1FM will broadcast concerts from the archives. The second broadcast will feature North Indian music performed at Wesleyan by sarod player Ali Akbar Khan on October 25, 1966 as well as a concert by Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (been) with Tewari (vocals) and Srinivasan (tambura) circa 1968. Graduate music student Suhail Yusuf will introduce the broadcast.

Each program will be available to stream from WESU's show archives for two weeks following the initial broadcast.

Stream this broadcast from the WESU archives here.

Image: Ali Akbar Khan.