The "raga" is the melodic form, but it is not just a scale, Shankar says. There are roughly 72 parent scales. And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six ...

Movie"Ravi Shankar plays the sitar, while members of the Children's Little Theatre Unit of Calcutta dance. Presents a montage of scenes from 20th-century India. A segment from "India, Haunting Passage ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli sitting in for Terry Gross. Ravi Shankar, who popularized the sitar and Indian music in America, died this week at the age of 92. He befriended the Beatles, gave ...

Ravi Shankar was a virtuoso sitar player long before he became a cult for a drug-fuelled hippy generation that found the exquisite music he plucked from the strings a perfect accompaniment to the ...

“Beauty” seemed somehow insufficient a description for the sounds that came from Ravi Shankar’s sitar in a concert hall. It was as if nature itself were being replicated on the stage, whether it was ...

Shankar’s discography is vast and, for beginners, at once confusing in its size and easy to enter. He was a virtuoso with catholic tastes and a collaborative spirit: there is no wrong door into ...

At last, Ravi Shankar fans were rewarded for their patience and perseverance, for the road to this concert was long and torturous. The originally scheduled Oct. 20, 2010 date was to have been part of ...

A real treat for fans of legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar, this is not only a live recording of a rare morning concert, but also an "at home" performance Shankar did for some special friends at his ...

When I was a child growing up in the 1980s, Ravi Shankar was like a kindly uncle to me. I knew him only through his records; his burly, smiling face adorned the covers of the many Shankar LPs and ...

Revisiting the event’s memorable set list, 57 years later. By Lindsay Zoladz Her performances with her husband at the time, Ravi Shankar, were acclaimed, but there were only a few of them. By Neil ...