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-[narrat] young am kh has jusreturned om his fst so tour ofndia. thisime alam father, maest, ali akbar khan originally emigrated from india to the u.s. in the 1960s to teach north indian classical music and to increase its audience. ♪ s baba khansah, has lid ha his lifin califnia. he conties to teh at the i. todzz saxopnist johhandy is a good friendf khansab. their sical panership marke that a mter of t saro had colborated

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gan with the lendary 1h ceury musian mian nsen,s taen was o of the ne wels of peror akr's cour the fort aemperor bar's fatehpur sikri played a key part in tansen's career. ♪♪ it is said that he could control rain and fire through his artistry. legend has it that tansen died singing the fire-evoking raag deepak. ♪♪ from the time of tansen, knowledge of this north indian music was carefully guarded, taught and passed down solely through blood relations. ♪♪

years of sacrice and srching d alam'srandfath, acharybaba allddin khan, tois true ru, mohammad wazir khan, a direct descendant of tansen. allauddin khan taught the music to alam's father, ali akbar khan, in the family's maihar home. ♪♪ khansahib now teaches alam at the faly home in san anselmocaliforn.(singing) ♪♪

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for his father and mothenext the family home in maihar. it is considered a holy place. ♪♪ sri hendra senor hemenabu, it is considered a holy place. is onef the grtest strumentakers inndia. sri hendra senor hemenabu, has madinstrumes for the khanamily fomany yea. place. alam's sode was made bhemen b. hen babu rembers meeng al's grandther in 45. harya ba allaudd khan was coideredo be more tn just ausician. tousic tt saintsr sages acq. rough hidedicati in india, they call this devotion sadana.

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narratoralam's mher, ry khan,s a sour of lo, serety, and pport foalam. she hes to givalam e to py the muc. he challge for knsahib, i mee everyo has which is tlearn sothing and ain to kp going,o do your be, to be lented, eat's hug ishich khsahib hato bringt out of iia. his fath wanted him too that. he told m, "go sead it fro as f as you n spreadt." his fath wanted him too that. -[narrat] in 195 at t request he told master olinist frlord y, as f as you n spreadt." maeso ali akr khan was invid to perform in europe and in the united states. khansahib performed at the museum of modern art in new york city. later, he became the first indian classical musician to perform on alistair cooke's omnibus television show. khansahib also recorded the western world's first lp

of indian classical music. -so, that was an entirely different type of a challenge, especially back in 1955 when traveling was difficult ev, people would ask him, and n"where is india? do you have tigers everywhere and lions?" like africa, you know? i mean, they didn't know any difference. so, that was khansahib's huge challenge along with other musicians that came at that time. -[narrat] alam'smother,, is theirector of ma recallshe earlyays the ali b the colge. mus. came fi years after thcollege gan. is theirector of ma recallshe earlyays the my day,eople le home. some witthblessis of d made tir way a awoulcamp in e hills.

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♪ ♪♪♪♪ ♪♪ -my father was 60 when he had me, so all the other parents of my friends didn't have parents that old and the age difference between my father and my mother, yeah, that was totally different. it was never strange to me because i knew how much they loved each other. my friends would always go skiing and camping,

and doing sports with their father and things like that and i didn't have that relationship with my father. ♪♪ what we did have with my father, the music, just who he was and such powerful energy. and when he went away it made me tremendously sad. i remember every time we'd go to the airport, evertime i'day b to him iust rember d be cryg, and i time wealys tell self,rport, "i'm n gonnary thitime." d be cryg, and i time s that hwas gonnbe ill.st feae and enever hwas ill, i fel. and vice versa when i felt sick he seemed to be upset and sick, too. we had this connection like that, i think. when my father first got sick it was extremely hard to deal with because it was unown. ♪♪

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♪♪ -[naator] al has rurned to ind for aoncert tr. ♪♪ on ts trip, am will give ae at t prestious der lane mus. the yog musici is anxis make a od impreion on t indiapublic. he wantso make s fatherroud. ♪ he wantso make s father♪oud. ♪♪