Perhaps the best known Indian musician, sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar (born 1920) is credited more than any other individual with introducing Indian musical traditions to the West and expandi...
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Anoushka Shankar, the now 26-year-old daughter of sitar master Ravi Shankar, has been sharing her intoxicating talents with the world for half her life. Unlike Anoushka’s music—which ha...
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Stockholm (dpa) - American jazz legend Sonny Rollins and US
composer and musician Steve Reich on Monday received the Polar Music
Prize 2007, joining the likes of musical gre...
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Today is Saturday, April 7, the 97th day of 2007. There are 268 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 7, 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confedera...
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New Delhi (dpa) - India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
is to seek the extradition of Ottavio Quattrocchi, an Italian
businessman accused in an arms bribery case in ...
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Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, hosted an unusual gathering Tuesday of religious leaders and victims of terrorist attacks who denounced Iran's president for claiming the Holocau...
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For the new India and its booming economy, the idea seemed eminently sensible: dredge a shipping channel between India and the nearby island of Sri Lanka, cutting voyages between the subcontinent's...
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Washington (dpa) - Woodstock played strong notes. Three days of
incredible music, half a million people, blankets, booze, drugs and
peace signs.
That was 1969...
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John BackusJohn Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, died Saturday. He was ...
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Ravi Shankar
Music Without Boundaries
