Indian music icons Kishori Amonkar, AR Rahman featured in UK school curriculum
Prasun Sonwalkar/London
AFP
British-Palestinian musician Reem Kelani's Sprinting Gazelle is part of curriculum's diverse musical genres.
School children in Britain will soon be able to listen and learn about music from the work of Indian legends like the late Kishori Amonkar and A R Rahman, besides Western exponents such as Mozart, The Beatles, Whitney Houston and historically-important composers such as Vivaldi, as part of a new Model Music Curriculum.
The diversity of music genres to be taught includes those identified with the Middle East, such as Reem Kelani’s