In a moment that would prove life-changing, we take a look at the moment George Harrison discovered the work of sitarist Ravi ...

George Harrison attended a private morning concert put on by one of his biggest inspirations, Ravi Shankar, at the Indian classical musician’s Hollywood home in June 1971; two months later, both would ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shankar, a sitar player known as the godfather of world music for his role in opening Western ears to sounds from the East, gives an honest, in-depth look at his life and work in this prodigious ...

Sitar player Ravi Shankar died Tuesday at the age of 92. Brian Q. Silver, a sitar player with over 40 years of experience, talks about playing the unique instrument and how Shankar popularized the ...

Jazz and Indian ragas share common ground in their traditional use of improvisation. They are often talked about in compatible terms, but Ravi Shankar, for one, did not believe that ragas could be ...

“What Andrés Segovia is to the guitar, what Pablo Casals is to the cello, so Ravi Shankar is to the sitar. The master. The one who you might say revolutionized the instrument.” This is how Chicago ...

TRUE, it was his brother Uday who was the star, the one Anna Pavlova had danced with, the one James Joyce said moved “like some divine being”. But critics were quite taken with young Ravi Shankar’s ...