The Ravi Shankar Ensemble—a multi-generational collective of world-class musicians curated by Anoushka and Sukanya Shankar— ...
What comes to our minds first when we think about Pandit Ravi Shankar is how he successfully introduced the West to the ragas of the East. And in the words of Ravi Shankar himself, his performance at ...
When sitarist Anoushka Shankar talks about the pain of the artistic process, she’s not speaking figuratively, or existentially. She is being quite literal. “Ever since I was a kid, I've had this one ...
(AP) Ravi Shankar was the master of the sitar the sitar that Sanjay Sharma made. Like his grandfather and father before him, Sharma built, tuned and fixed instruments for the virtuoso, who introduced ...
NEW DELHI (AP) — The walls of Sanjay Sharma’s music shop are lined with gleaming string instruments and old photographs of legendary musicians. Beatles George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
In the second volume in a series of free-flowing, ambient-tinged mini-albums, the composer—daughter of the late sitar virtuoso Pandit Ravi Shankar—seeks out a new vocabulary for her instrument. Save ...
NEW DELHI (AP) -- With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and ...