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ravishankar.org. Ravi Shankar (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈrobi ˈʃɔŋkor]; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, [2] sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; [3] 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second ...
Ravi Shankar (born April 7, 1920, Benares [now Varanasi], India—died December 11, 2012, San Diego, California, U.S.) was an Indian musician, player of the sitar, composer, and founder of the National Orchestra of India, who was influential in stimulating Western appreciation of Indian music. Born into a Bengali Brahman (highest social class ...
Ravi Shankar was an Indian musician and composer best known for his success in popularizing the sitar. Shankar grew up studying music and toured as a member of his brother's dance troupe.
Ravi Shankar teaches George Harrison the sitar But it was the daughter from an earlier relationship, the multi Grammy-winning singer Norah Jones, who claimed more attention.
Ravi Shankar, whose formal name was Robindra Shankar Chowdhury, was born on April 7, 1920, in Varanasi, India, to a family of musicians and dancers.
The Museum hosted Sukanya Shankar of the Ravi Shankar Foundation when she visited the museum to dress a mannequin of her late husband, Ravi Shankar, for an upcoming display in the Artist Gallery. The outfit, on loan to MIM from the foundation, is the one that Maestro Shankar wore during the historic Concert for Bangladesh organized by former ...
Ravi Shankar's last recorded concert was a three-hour performance delivered on the eve of his 92 nd birthday. It would become his musical farewell to his home country and to the cultural font of ...
Ravi Shankar is the sitar master who brought Indian classical music to the West. For more than 50 years, Ravi Shankar has been the man responsible for bringing Indian classical music to the West ...
Ravi Shankar was already revered as a master of the sitar in 1966 when he met George Harrison, the Beatle who became his most famous disciple and gave the Indian musician-composer unexpected pop ...
Ravi Shankar – legendary sitar player, composer, teacher and, in recent years, far and away India’s most outstanding ambassador of music, is awarded the 1998 Polar Music Prize for nearly six decades of achievement as a brilliant performer and explorer of his country’s art music and at the same time a leading representative and communicator to western civilisation of the musical ...