The Ithacan

For the third installment of the college’s Raga workshop series, A Master Class on Sitar, Denise Nuttall and Stefan Fiol conducted a master class in traditional Hindustani, or North Indian, music and Raga theory.

“It was mysterious and dark, the heart of darkness,” David Turkon, associate professor and chair of the anthropology department, said. “I didn’t know what I was going into, but I knew I was going to a place called Africa.”