How good at guitar is St. Louis Park native Sharon Isbin? In 1989, the three-time Grammy winner founded Juilliard’s guitar department. And Isbin’s Strings for Peace collaborator, 77-year-old Amjad Ali Khan, “is to the sarod… what the late Ravi Shankar was to sitar,” writes Star Tribune music critic Jon Bream. High praise. “The music Amjad Ali Khan has composed for guitar and sarod is sheer genius, and I don’t use this term lightly,” says Isbin in an artist’s statement. “In an amazing way, [Strings for Peace] interweaves our varied musical, spiritual and artistic traditions with mystical beauty, creativity, grace and great emotion.” At the Dakota they’ll be joined by Khan’s sons, classical sarod aces Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash. (RACKET)