Zakir Hussain took time off from his rehearsals running up to a performance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Mumbai to discuss the technicalities of composing a tabla concerto that would be played by an orchestra of Western musical instruments. Peshkar, the first work commissioned by the Symphony Orchestra of India, was performed in September 2015, before travelling to Switzerland in January 2016.
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