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Biography of Ravi Shankar
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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 expanding those traditions to incorporate Western...


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Pandit Ravi Shankar (born April 7 , 1920 , in Benares , United Provinces , British India ) is an Indian composer and sitarist. Unsourced Thank you, if you appreciate the tuning so much, I hope you will enjoy the playing more. To the audience at The...


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Ravi Shankar Information
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Pandit Ravi Shankar ( Devanagari: रवि शंकर, "Pandit" (Sanskrit, "learned") is honorific), born April 7, 1920, in Benares, United Provinces, British India) is an Indian sitar player and composer. He is a disciple of Baba Allauddin Khan, the...


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The Boston Herald
Ravi Shankar still enthralls.
04/17/1998: 361 words, approx. 1 pages
Ravi Shankar at Symphony Hall, Boston, Wednesday night. It seems hard to believe, yet more than 30 years have passed since sitar master Ravi Shankar shook up the Western musical world with his astonishing, otherworldly Indian ragas. Wednesday night at Symphony...
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The Boston Globe
Ravi Shankar Traded Popularity For Purity
09/15/2000: 755 words, approx. 3 pages
The Beatles helped turn Ravi Shankar into a pop icon. That was in the 1960s, when he taught George Harrison to play the exotic 20- string sitar. But Shankar was never comfortable with the media glare. He acknowledges he might have become a...
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Nirvana Woman
Music Without Boundaries
11/17/2007: 1,109 words, approx. 4 pages
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 had always stayed neatly within the confines of the traditional classical Indian genre—Anoushka has always lived a borderless...
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AP News
Today in history - April 7
4/7/2007: 580 words, approx. 2 pages
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 Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.On this date:In 1927,...
 


 

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