Word: shankar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...without offending anyone," says Sitarist Ravi Shankar with a definite air of passive insistence, "in the United States people are too much used to things being sold, to publicity. Something comes in the air - a yoyo, Tiny Tim, Nehru shirts, transcendentalism - and people go all out for it. When there is something else, they turn their face. It hurts me to see people being so fickle...
...Shankar should know. After the Beatles introduced the resonant sound of the stringed sitar to rock in Norwegian Wood (1965) and their imitators began twanging along, Shankar suddenly found himself the hero of the pop, hippie and fashion worlds. Then, just as suddenly, the fad passed. The teeny-boppers returned to their Bee Gees, and the hippies began playing Erik Satie at their acid parties. Though dismayed by the abruptness of it all, Shankar realized that it was probably just as well. With good reason. Horror of horrors, he confided, "they took me for a pop musician...
...Shankar demonstrated at his sixday "Festival from India" in Manhattan last week, he is the farthest thing imaginable from a pop musician. Rather, he is the foremost practitioner of one of the world's oldest and most sophisticated musical arts. Weaving the melodies of the classic raga into the intricate rhythms of the tala, he improvised compositions of the utmost subtlety, reveling in the musical growth that was taking place under his fingers, glorying in the sweat on his swarthy face. Playing a raga can be "like mounting a fiery horse," he says. His audiences could tell what...
...Ravi Shankar, D.F.A., sitarist. It has been your great achievement to open, virtually singlehanded, the door between two great cultures...
STANFORD SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS, Stanford, Calif., features the City Center Jeffrey Ballet, Ravi Shankar, and more in six weeks of music, drama and dance, beginning June...