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Ravi
Shankar: Indian composer/sitarist
Common
clues: Sitarist
Shankar; First name in Indian music; Norah's dad; Beatle George's
sitarist friend; First name in ragas; Shankar with a sitar
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News:
Psychedelic
1960s
Video:
Ravi
Shankar on the Dick Cavett Show
Pop
changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like
literature. -- Ravi Shankar
Ravi
Shankar (born April 7, 1920 in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India) is
a Bengali-Indian musician best known for his virtuosity on the
sitar.
A
disciple of Allauddin Khan (founder of the Maihar gharana of
Indian classical music), Pandit Ravi Shankar is arguably the
best-known Indian instrumentalist, and is well known for his
pioneering work in bringing the power and appeal of the Indian
classical music tradition, as well as Indian music and its
performers in general, to the West. This was done through his
association with The Beatles as well as with his own personal
charisma. His musical career spans over six decades and Shankar
currently holds the Guinness Record for the longest international
career.
Ravi
Shankar gave up a possible dance career, and starting in 1938 he
spent long years of dedicated study under his guru Allaudin Khan.
His first public performances in India came in 1939. Formal
training ended in 1944 and he worked out of Bombay. He began
writing scores for film and ballet and started a recording career
with HMV's Indian affiliate. He became music director of All
India Radio in the 1950s.
Ravi
Shankar then became well known to the music world outside India,
first performing in the Soviet Union in 1954 and then the West in
1956. He performed in major events such as the Edinburgh Festival
as well as major venues such as Royal Festival Hall.
George
Harrison, a member of The Beatles, began experimenting with the
sitar in 1965. The two eventually met due to this common interest
and became close friends, and that in turn expanded Shankar's
fame as a pop star and as Harrison's mentor. This development
greatly expanded his career. He was invited to play venues that
were unusual for a classical musician, such as the 1967 Monterey
Pop Festival in Monterey, California, with Ustad Alla Rakha on
tabla. He was also one of the artists who performed at the
Woodstock Festival in 1969 and The Concert for Bangladesh in
1971. Ravi Shankar & Friends was also the opening act for
Harrison's 1974 tour of the United States.
Ravi
Shanker has been critical of some facets of the Western reception
of Indian music. On a trip to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury
district after performing in Monterey, Shankar wrote "I felt
offended and shocked to see India being regarded so superficially
and its great culture being exploited. Yoga, Tantra, mantra,
kundalini, ganja, hashish, Kama Sutra? They all became part of a
cocktail that everyone seemed to be lapping up!" In 1969 he
published an English language autobiography, My Music, My Life.
Ravi
Shankar has written two concertos for sitar and orchestra,
violin-sitar compositions for Yehudi Menuhin and himself, music
for flute virtuoso Jean Pierre Rampal, and music for Hozan
Yamamoto, master of the shakuhachi (Japanese flute), and koto
virtuoso Musumi Miyashita. He has composed extensively for films
and ballets in India, Canada, Europe, and the United States,
including Chappaqua, Charly, Gandhi, and the Apu Trilogy. His
recording Tana Mana, released on the Private Music label in 1987,
penetrated the New Age genre with its unique combination of
traditional instruments with electronics. The classical composer
Philip Glass acknowledges Shankar as a major influence, and the
two collaborated to produce Passages, a recording of compositions
in which each reworks themes composed by the other. Shankar also
composed the sitar part in Glass's 2004 composition Orion.
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