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Young sitarist casts Jhinjhoti’s spell at APMC event

The News International 17 Sep 2023
Rakae, who came from Lahore on the invitation of the APMC, is also a music producer and singer. He has also been part of several projects of modern musical genres, but as it was the APMC’s concert, his entire performance was of the classical Indian music ... However, he added that music performers were entitled to such artistic licence.
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From the Makran Coast to Europe, music has a way of bringing us closer

Dawn 13 Sep 2023
The benju is a one-metre-long instrument, with both strings and keys, and is a vital component in Balochi music composition ... In the 20th century, the Baloch community modified the Taishōgoto into their own version of a folk music instrument ... “You can just get a feeling that over here, there is respect for music.
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From the Makran Coast to Europe, Ustad Noor Bakhsh’s music has a way of bringing people closer

Dawn 13 Sep 2023
The benju is a one-metre-long instrument, with both strings and keys, and is a vital component in Balochi music composition ... In the 20th century, the Baloch community modified the Taishōgoto into their own version of a folk music instrument ... “You can just get a feeling that over here, there is respect for music.
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Legendary broadcaster, intellectual Aslam Azhar remembered

Urdu Point 01 Sep 2023
Born on September 1, 1932 in Lahore, Azhar did his bachelor's from Government College Lahore ... Azhar has to his credit among other initiatives, like the first ptv award ceremony of 1982-83, Music 89, marathon transmissions on 1970 elections and the Islamic Summit held in Lahore.
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Roundabout: Legend of Shah Hussain retold in fiction with finesse

Hindustan Times 26 Aug 2023
Talking of the journey that led him willy-nilly to Lahore’s Peer-faqir, he says, “The intensity of his verses was such that I could not but set them to music I will ever remain grateful to Mohan Singh Diwana for his pioneering work on Shah Hussain which inspired my journey”.
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IPC Ministry seeks advice over Zaka’s appointment as PCB chief

Dawn 23 Aug 2023
LAHORE. The musical chairs at the helm of the Pakistan Cricket Board seem like they will continue, with the future of incumbent interim management commmittee chairman, Zaka Ashraf, hanging in the balance ... In the letter, signed by its secretary Ahmed Hanif Orakzai, the IPC stated ... Published in Dawn, August 23th, 2023. .
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How the Punjabi language is bringing people on both sides of the India-Pakistan border together

Indian Express 15 Aug 2023
Recently there has been a proliferation of groups on the internet that are seriously engaged in bringing together vital elements and high points in the culture of Punjab, recognising a shared history, language, folklore, literature, music and many integral areas of our life and culture.
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Alhamra hosts Azadi Music Show

The News International 12 Aug 2023
LAHORE ... Amidst the melodies of the Azadi Music Show, participants collectively revisited the history of Pakistan’s independence.
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Surinder Shinda, a carpenter\u2019s son who had wanted to be a star since childhood

Indian Express 26 Jul 2023
He started learning music at the tender age of 4,\u201d said noted poet and cultural activist Gurbhajan Gill ... He used to take music classes from the school as well. I think he was more passionate about music than studies ... Shinda had been active since 1959 and released over 165 music albums. His song \u201cUchha Burj Lahore Da\u201d was quite popular.
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Film finance council, fund to be set up under new policy: Marriyum

Dawn 10 Jul 2023
LAHORE ... She was addressing a press conference at the Radio Pakistan Lahore Station, where she laid the foundation of a cinema house, and inaugurated a classical music research cell, digital broadcast lab and a podcast studio ... Opens classical music research cell at Radio Pakistan Lahore Station.
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NCA announces summer camp admissions

Urdu Point 09 Jul 2023
LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 9th Jul, 2023 ) .The summer camp admissions have commenced at National College of Arts (NCA) ... take place in NCA Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Gilgat.
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Note Worthy: \u2018He was guru of Chandigarh and trained so many musicians\u2019

Indian Express 04 Jul 2023
That is precisely why, till the very end, he was immersed in music and in touch with his students and disciples. Born in Gujranwala in 1937, his family moved to Jalandhar after the Partition, where he began his training in music under Pandit Kasturilal, the disciple of Ustad Chhotte Ghulam Alik Khan of Lahore.
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Bridge between India, Pak: Former students pay tribute to Cooper ma\u2019am at the first Rati F. Cooper Memorial lecture

Indian Express 02 Jul 2023
Cooper was the first woman warden principal who went on to serve at the school for 42 years before she returned to Lahore in 2000 ... She passed away due to old age on March 8, 2019 in Lahore ... After graduating from the Sacred Heart Convent, Lahore, she went to the Trinity College of Music in London from where she secured a Licentiate.
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Alhamra holds World Music Day event

The News International 22 Jun 2023
LAHORE.The Lahore Arts Council orchestrated a magnificent evening of music as a heartfelt tribute to musicians from across the globe on World Music Day at Alhamra Arts Centre here on Wednesday ... Ustad Gullu emphasised the unifying power of music, reminding everyone that it has the ...
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Profile| The perfect pitch for love and loss

Hindustan Times 16 Jun 2023
The All Pakistan Music Conference was a voluntary organisation set up in the late 1950s to promote classical arts, its monthly concerts organised in Lahore — and later, in ... She soon left Lahore to study music production and engineering at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

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