"Mohan Shankar Wright, on 17 February 2015. She was divorced in the year 2018 and now lives in London with her two sons. Anoushka Shankar Anoushka Shankar (Bengali : অনুষ্কা শঙ্কর) (born 9 June 1981) is a British Indian sitar player and composer. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar and the half-sister of Norah Jones. Anoushka was born in London and her childhood was divided between London and Delhi. She is the daughter of Sukanya Shankar and Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, who was 61 when she was born. Through her father, she is also the half-sister of American"
"Shankar's female companion, on tambura. The second piece is ""Raga Ananda Bhairava"", performed by Shankar with his regular accompanist and instrument-maker, Nodu Mullick, on tambura, and Rakha again on tabla. Side two in the original LP format consists of Menuhin and his sister Hephzibah performing Bartók's Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano. All selections by Ravi Shankar except where noted. Side one Side two West Meets East, Volume 2 West Meets East, Volume 2 is an album by American violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, released in 1968. It is the second album in a trilogy"
"combination. Another Baba legacy was the ""jawab-sawal"" (call-and-response) interplay between solo instruments and the twin hand-drum tabla – a dialogue that Shankar, especially, popularised with Western rock audiences, through his and tabla player Alla Rakha's performances at Monterrey and Woodstock in the late 1960s. Compared to the more traditional musical path adopted by Khan, Shankar experimented with genres outside Indian classical music and increasingly associated with Western artists, including George Harrison and Philip Glass.<ref name=""Massey/Shankar obit"">Reginald Massey, ""Ravi Shankar obituary"", ""The Guardian"", 12 December 2012 (retrieved 1 November 2013).</ref> Born in East Bengal (now part of Bangladesh), Khan joined Shankar"
"century, having composed up to 600 pieces of music and been responsible for modernising two of its most important string instruments – the sitar and the sarod. Author Peter Lavazzoli credits Baba's various contributions as having ""shaped ... much of what the West knows as Indian classical music"" via Shankar and Khan's subsequent work. Of the two musicians, Khan, as a master sarodya, was the first to achieve international recognition, with a visit to New York that culminated in his 1955 album """".<ref name=""Hunt/AAK obit"">Ken Hunt, ""Ustad Ali Akbar Khan: Sarod maestro who played with Ravi Shankar and appeared at"
"when Ravi Shankar retained him as his regular touring accompanist from around 1962 onwards. What he lacked in beauty of tone, Alla Rakha more than made up for it, with the most magically intuitive and natural sense of rhythm – an ability to play outside the beat while always remaining entirely cognizant of it. Rakha popularized the art of tabla, playing across the globe, elevating the status and respect of his instrument. Abbaji (as he was affectionately known by his disciples) also bridged the gap between Carnatic music and Hindustani music by playing with both renowned Carnatic musicians and other"
"chart throughout his career. Ravi Shankar's appearance at the Monterey International Pop Festival marked a highpoint in the popularity of Indian classical music in the West, during a period when rock groups such as the Beatles, the Byrds and the Rolling Stones had increasingly adopted aspects of the genre in their work. Adding to Shankar's own standing among Western youth, he had achieved fame for his role as sitar teacher to George Harrison, the Beatles' lead guitarist. Having moved to California in February 1967 due to the demand for his concerts in the United States, the festival was Shankar's first"
"Alla Rakha Ustad Allarakha Qureshi (29 April 1919 – 3 February 2000), popularly known as Alla Rakha, was an Indian tabla player specialized in Hindustani Classical music. He was a frequent accompanist of sitar player Ravi Shankar. Allah Rakha was born in Ghagwal, Jammu and Kashmir, British India. His mother tongue was Dogri. He became fascinated with the sound and rhythm of the tabla at the age of 12, while staying with his uncle in Gurdaspur. Finding little chances for grooming and appreciation, the determined young lad ran away from home, became a disciple of tabla began studying it with"
"Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India was an Indian classical music revue led by sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar intended for Western concert audiences and performed in 1974. Its presentation was the first project undertaken by the Material World Charitable Foundation, set up the previous year by ex-Beatle George Harrison. Long a champion of Indian music, Harrison also produced an eponymous studio album by the Music Festival orchestra, which was released in 1976 on his Dark Horse record label. Both the CD format of the Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India album and a"
"music ..."" All songs by Ravi Shankar. Tana Mana Tana Mana is an album by Indian musician Ravi Shankar, originally credited to ""the Ravi Shankar Project"" and released in 1987. The album is an experimental work by Shankar, mixing traditional instrumentation with 1980s electronic music and sampling technology. Shankar recorded much of ""Tana Mana"" in 1983 with sound effects innovator Frank Serafine, but it remained unreleased until Peter Baumann, head of new age record label Private Music, became attached to the project. The album title translates to mean ""body and mind"". In addition to his familiar instrument, the sitar, Shankar"
"Khan, the performer-pedagogue from Maihar best known as sitarist Ravi Shankar's guru. However, as is the case with most young, evolving instruments, much work remains to be done in the area of sarod luthiery in order to achieve reliable customization, and precise replication of successful instruments. This reflects the general state of Indian instrument-making in the present day. The design of the instrument depends on the school (gharana) of playing. There are three distinguishable types: The conventional sarod is a 17 to 25-stringed lute-like instrument — four to five main strings used for playing the melody, one or two drone"
"his trilogy of albums with classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin.<ref name=""Massey/Shankar obit"">Reginald Massey, ""Ravi Shankar obituary"", ""The Guardian"", 12 December 2012 (retrieved 27 December 2013).</ref> Shankar describes the session for ""West Eats Meat"" as the first time he ever played sitar with a jazz bassist – in this instance, Patrick O'Hearn. Produced by Baumann at The Enterprise in Burbank, California, the session included contributions from Lakshmi, Khan and former Shankar student Harihar Rao (on percussion), and tabla player Kumar Bose. Like Chaudhuri, Bose had become one of Shankar's preferred accompanists on tabla, following the end of the sitarist's 33-year partnership with"
"of sitar, sarod, tabla and tambura interplay ever recorded"". All selections by Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan. Side one Side two Side three Side four In Concert 1972 In Concert 1972 is a double live album by sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and sarodya Ali Akbar Khan, released in 1973 on Apple Records. It was recorded at the Philharmonic Hall, New York City, in October 1972, and is a noted example of the two Hindustani classical musicians' celebrated ""jugalbandi"" (duet) style of playing. With accompaniment from tabla player Alla Rakha, the performance reflects the two artists' sorrow at the recent"
"Ravi Shankar's Festival from India Ravi Shankar's Festival from India is a double album by Indian musician and composer Ravi Shankar, released on World Pacific Records in December 1968. It contains studio recordings made by a large ensemble of performers, many of whom Shankar had brought to the United States from India. Among the musicians were Shivkumar Sharma, Jitendra Abhisheki, Palghat Raghu, Lakshmi Shankar, Aashish Khan and Alla Rakha. The project presented Indian classical music in an orchestral setting, so recalling Shankar's work as musical director of All India Radio in the years before he achieved international fame as a"
"released by the singer Girija Devi at the ITC Sangeet Research Academy in September 2017. Tarun Bhattacharya Pandit Tarun Bhattacharya (born 23 December 1957) is an Indian classical musician who plays the santoor, a type of hammered dulcimer. He has learnt from Ravi Shankar. Bhattacharya was born on 23 December 1957 in Howrah (the twin city of Calcutta), India. A commerce graduate from one of the most reputed colleges of Calcutta, after a few brief years of professional life Bhattacharya started learning music from his father, Rabi Bhattacharya, honed his skills under Dulal Roy and finally began learning under Ravi"
"start with 'I Am Missing You,' as sung by Lakshmi Shankar. This rare English-language song shows off Shankar's gift for melody … [The ballet's] music is appropriately varied in tone and instrumentation over three movements entitled 'Dream,' 'Nightmare' and 'Dawn.' Western instruments such as saxophone, bass and guitar augment the traditional Indian sound to create unusual, evocative mood pieces with a definite, hypnotic groove.""<ref name=""Marchese/Second Disc"">Joe Marchese, ""Review: Ravi Shankar and George Harrison, 'Collaborations'"", The Second Disc, 8 November 2010 (retrieved 18 August 2014).</ref> Music journalist Graham Reid describes Shankar's two Dark Horse albums as ""absolute delights of immacuately produced,"
"Kamala Chakravarty Kamala Chakravarty (born Saraswati Kamala Shastri, 1928) is an Indian classical musician and former dancer, known for her association with sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. From 1967 until the late 1970s, she accompanied Shankar, in the role of tambura player and singer, in a number of acclaimed performances, including the Monterey International Pop Festival (1967), his Human Rights Day duet with violinist Yehudi Menuhin (1967), the Concert for Bangladesh (1971) and the Music Festival from India (1974). She also lived with Shankar as his wife from 1967 to 1981, during which he was still married to musician and teacher"
"sunset, the new cover consisted of a still of Shankar playing sitar during the 1960s. This photo, taken by Canadian portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh, shows a portion of the seven-played-string model of sitar that Shankar had popularised over the more traditional six-string model favoured by musicians such as Vilayat Khan. For the 2010 reissue, EMWMusic expanded the soundtrack album from thirteen selections to seventeen, with all recordings fully remastered. The ""Raga"" soundtrack remains available via digital download with the documentary film. All songs by Ravi Shankar, except where noted. Side one Side two Raga (film) Raga is a 1971 documentary"
"Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra is a studio album by Indian musician and composer Ravi Shankar with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) conducted by André Previn. It was premiered at London's Royal Festival Hall on 28 January 1971, and subsequently released in Britain and America. Shankar began composing the work, his first concerto, after receiving a commission from the LSO in mid November 1970. The idea of creating an Indian classical work for a full Western orchestra, accompanied by his sitar, appealed to Shankar following his forays into chamber music with violinist Yehudi Menuhin –"
"Ravi Shankar: In Celebration Ravi Shankar: In Celebration is a compilation box set by Indian classical musician and composer Ravi Shankar, released in 1996 on Angel Records in conjunction with Dark Horse Records. The four discs cover Shankar's international career, from the 1950s to the mid 1990s, and include recordings originally released on the World Pacific, HMV, Angel, Apple, Dark Horse and Private Music record labels. Shankar's friend George Harrison compiled and co-produced the set, which was issued as part of year-long celebrations for Shankar's 75th birthday. Each disc of ""In Celebration"" adopts a musical theme covering a facet of"
"featuring Ravi Shankar's earliest compositional experimentations with his National Orchestra between 1950 and 1954. The orchestra consisted of many of the finest Indian Musicians of the period, and in these recordings one senses the excitement Ravi felt at having such resources at his disposal. Not only was Ravi inspired by the players to experiment with the orchestration, but he enjoyed the freedom to explore both North and South Indian systems, as well as use some Western technique. Ravi also maintained his natural inclination for improvisation by recording usually within an hour or two completing the composition. ""Released: 2010."" EMWMusic released"
"Lakshmi Shankar Lakshmi Shankar (born Lakshmi Sastri, 16 June 1926 – 30 December 2013) was a noted Hindustani classical vocalist of the Patiala Gharana. She was known for her performances of ""khyal"", ""thumri"", and ""bhajans"". She was the sister-in-law of sitar player Ravi Shankar and the mother-in-law of violinist L. Subramaniam (her daughter Viji (Vijayashree Shankar) Subramaniam being his first wife). Born in 1926, Lakshmi started her career in dancing. In 1939, when Uday Shankar brought his dance troupe to Madras (recently renamed Chennai), she joined the Almora Centre to learn Shankar’s dance style based on the Indian classics, and"
"a Tamil Iyer family from Kerala. He learned Hindustani classical music and Carnatic music in his childhood and started playing the veena at the age of five. He studied under Srinivas Khale, a popular Marathi music composer. After graduating in 1988 with a degree in Software Engineering from Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology in Navi Mumbai under the auspices of Mumbai University, he worked as a software engineer on Oracle Version Six. After working for a while for Leading Edge Systems, Shankar ventured into the field of music. He earned his first award as a playback singer in a Tamil"
"Mohammad (dholak and tambura), together with musicians who had regularly accompanied Shankar during his raga recitals in the West: Alla Rakha (tabla), Nodu Mullick (tambura and swarmandel) and Kamala Chakravarty (vocals). The ensemble's instrumentation also included veena and kanjira. Some of the performers would subsequently teach at Shankar's Kinnara School of Music, the students of which included rock musicians Jim Morrison and Robbie Krieger of the Doors, Collin Walcott and Russ Titelman. With his orchestra assembled in Los Angeles, Shankar recorded a double album, titled ""Ravi Shankar's Festival from India"". The sessions took place at World Pacific's studio and were"
"L. Shankar Lakshminarayana Shankar (born 26 April 1950), also known as L. Shankar and Shenkar, is an Indian-born American violinist, singer, and composer. In the 1970s he formed the band Shakti with British guitarist John McLaughlin. His style combines jazz and Indian classical music, though he also worked in pop and rock, as with Peter Gabriel. Shankar was born in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India, to a musical family. His father, V. Lakshminarayana, was a violinist, as were his brothers, L. Subramaniam and L. Vaidyanathan. Two of his uncles were musicians and teachers of Indian music at Wesleyan University. Shankar started"
"Harrison-arranged studio version of ""I Am Missing You"" appeared on Shankar's career-spanning box set """", released in 1996. Shankar reinterpreted ""I Am Missing You"" for his 2005 project Jazzmin, featuring Californian jazz musicians and his daughter Anoushka on sitar. Having trained formally in the Hindustani classical idiom and performed as a sitarist since the 1940s, Ravi Shankar wrote his first Western pop composition, ""I Am Missing You"", in the early 1970s. Although known primarily as an instrumentalist in the West through his interpretation of Indian ragas, Shankar's previous work in the vocal tradition had included ballet productions for the Indian"
"Reprise catalogue number RS-6398. A message from Shankar appeared on the front cover of the LP: ""I have had a dream to try to combine Western and Indian music into a new form, a music which has no particular name but is melodious and touching, and which combines the most modern electronic devices with the old traditional instrument, the sitar."" The liner notes stated that ""He's as Indian as the tradition in which he received his education as a classical musician, but he's excited about Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and electronic music."" Also in 1970, Shankar performed his first"
"Tana Mana Tana Mana is an album by Indian musician Ravi Shankar, originally credited to ""the Ravi Shankar Project"" and released in 1987. The album is an experimental work by Shankar, mixing traditional instrumentation with 1980s electronic music and sampling technology. Shankar recorded much of ""Tana Mana"" in 1983 with sound effects innovator Frank Serafine, but it remained unreleased until Peter Baumann, head of new age record label Private Music, became attached to the project. The album title translates to mean ""body and mind"". In addition to his familiar instrument, the sitar, Shankar plays synthesizer extensively on the recording. The"
"that highlights the album's East-meets-West theme. Shankar sports a baritone saxophone, Harrison sits behind a small drum, while most of the other musicians have swapped their regular instrument for the opposite culture's near equivalent: Keltner plays another hand drum, whereas Rakha holds a pair of drumsticks; bass player Voormann has a tamboura, Sharma a Western-style violin, and Chaurasia a bass flute. ""Shankar Family & Friends"" peaked at number 176 on the ""Billboard"" 200 in America but failed to place on Britain's album chart, then just a top 50. According to pop-culture author Robert Rodriguez, Shankar was in two minds about"
"In Concert 1972 In Concert 1972 is a double live album by sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and sarodya Ali Akbar Khan, released in 1973 on Apple Records. It was recorded at the Philharmonic Hall, New York City, in October 1972, and is a noted example of the two Hindustani classical musicians' celebrated ""jugalbandi"" (duet) style of playing. With accompaniment from tabla player Alla Rakha, the performance reflects the two artists' sorrow at the recent death of their revered guru, and Khan's father, Allauddin Khan. The latter was responsible for many innovations in Indian music during the twentieth century, including the"
"triumphs and challenges of this type of cross-cultural exchange and reminding us of Ravi Shankar's musical mission and life's work: Peace through Music. East Meets West Music: UTSAV Series! Raga & Raj ""Released: 2012."" In October 2011, at the age of 91, Ravi Shankar invited his long time-tabla accompanist, Tanmoy Bose, to his home in Encinitas, California for an informal recording session. Over four days in Shankar's living room, the recorded seven different Ragas. The resulting music is pure Ravi Shankar, combining his deep musical experience and brilliant technique with the passion he brings to live performance. The first two"
"then asked the following performers to join him in California: his sister-in-law Lakshmi Shankar (vocals), Shivkumar Sharma (santoor), Sharad Kumar (shehnai and flute), Sabri Khan (sarangi), Miskin Khan (tabla and percussion), Jitendra Abhisheki (vocals) and Palghat Raghu (mridangam). His students Das Gupta and Ahmed contributed on tambura and sitar, respectively, while Rao's brother Taranath, although a skilled tablist, played tambura. In his second autobiography, ""Raga Mala"", Shankar writes that for most of these players, the 1968 Festival from India was ""their first big break in the West"". According to Shankar's recollection, the other personnel were Aashish Khan (sarod) and Fakir"
"and new artists were introduced to the cognoscenti and the novice. Among the well known names, Ravi Shankar was first presented by him to the public in Calcutta. The Ustad was popular during the early 1930s to the late 1940s. Mushtaq Ali died on 21 July 1989. Mushtaq Ali Khan Mushtaq Ali Khan (20 June 1911 in Banaras – 21 July 1989) and was an Indian classical sitar, surbahar (and pakhawaj) player. Khan learnt music from his father, Ashiq Ali Khan, who had learned sitar from the 19th century player Barkatullah Khan, a descendant of Masit Sen of Delhi, the"
"California. She also modeled and acted in stage productions. She began performing professionally at age 14. Shankar plays the violin, cello and piano. She is the only female in the world to play the double violin. This ten-string, stereophonic instrument covers the entire orchestral range, including double bass, cello, viola and violin. In 2004, she performed on the score of composer John Debney for the movie ""The Passion of the Christ"". Shankar has been associated with the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. In 2007, Shankar was chosen as one of six film composers chosen to attend the Sundance Institute"