A group of music students, some of them holding guitars and other instruments, sat in a semi-circle, listening intently for ninety minutes as the man with the sitar spoke and played for them. His name ...

Students from a variety of majors join in the Schoenberg Music Building on weekday evenings to learn the art of sitar playing from their instructor, UCLA lecturer and sitarist Rahul Neuman.

The sitar's distinctive sound is produced by a gently curved surface that makes each note bloom before it settles, an effect ...