Zakir Hussain composed music for the opening ceremony of the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics. His work with Western artists like Yo-Yo Ma, Charles Lloyd, Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, an

His collaborators included John McLaughlin, Béla Fleck, Ravi Shankar, Herbie Hancock, Yo-Yo Ma and members of the Grateful Dead.

Zakir Hussain, virtuoso of the tabla instrument and a towering figure in Indian classical music, died on Dec. 15 of chronic lung disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, at a hospital in San Francisco. He was 73.