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Zakir Hussain’s conversation of forgotten rhythms

By Siddhartha Mitter

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 16, 2012

For close to two decades, tabla master Zakir Hussain - a globe-trotting dynamo who has been based in California since the 1970s but spends winters in India and tours at length elsewhere - has led the Masters of Percussion, a project dedicated to encounters among top drummers. The group’s composition changes from year to year; its current formation plays Sanders Theatre on Sunday. “The whole idea is to showcase rarely heard percussion traditions on the world stage,’’ Hussain says.

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