Ali Akbar Khan passes away at 87
A sarod player, he was one of my favorite musicians. Here is one obituary, noting his father made him practice for 18 hours a day. Here is another obituary; he once wrote: "If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after
20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30
years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many
more years before you finally become a true artist — then you may
please even God." Here is evidence that Khan understood the Romer model. Here is my favorite Khan CD.