Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan exhorts Indian corporates to support, promote classical music, artists

Maestro Amjad Ali Khan, the legendary master of the sarod, wants Indian corporate and business houses to come forward to support and promote the genre of Indian classical music, which has been fading in the noise created by modern music on new-age technology platforms.

Advocating that people who wish to learn music should do so with an aim to understand and preserve it, Khan -- the sixth generation in the legendary line of the Senia Bangash School -- emphasised that opting for a career in music with the sole purpose of a stage performance or talent shows is a "disservice" to the music itself.

"People who learn music should learn to understand it, to go into its depth and to preserve it. To learn music for stage performances...maybe a thinking... but I don't know what it achieves," Amjad Ali Khan told reporters.

Khan, who along with his sons Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash, performed recently at the second edition of 'HCL Concerts' at Carnegie Hall, New York City, and Levi's Stadium, San Francisco, further said, "It is important that corporate houses of India should encourage Indian classical music and musicians."