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Article: Ali Akbar Khan is on a quest to keep India's sarod music alive.(Originated from Orange County Register)
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- March 25, 1996
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Along with Ravi Shankar and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ali Akbar Khan is perhaps the best-known purveyor to Westerners of traditional musics from the Indian subcontinent. But unlike what's happened with Pakistan's Nusrat, who accompanies Eddie Vedder on two songs for ``Dead Man Walking,'' don't expect to see the Indian-born and raised Khan doing anything similar soon.
Khan, 73, is considered the pre-eminent player of the sarod, a 25-string instrument similar to a lute, and he thinks it's his duty to keep alive a pure form of Indian classical music. In fact, his most recent album _ ``Legacy,'' with vocalist Asha Bhosle (Triloka/AMMP) _ features traditional songs dating to ...