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...loveliest of his ballads, Yesterday, to the accompaniment of a string octet-a novel and effective backing that gave birth to an entire new genre, baroque-rock. Still another form, raga-rock, had its origins after George Harrison flipped over Indian music, studied with Indian sitar Virtuoso Ravi Shankar, and introduced a brief sitar motif on the 1965 recording Norwegian Wood. Now everybody's making with the sitar...
...undergraduate requests for a course on "witchcraft and the occult." Among some 15 student-requested courses created at Stanford were seminars on "Ideology and Utopia" and "Anarchism and Fascism." The City College of New York is offering two courses on music of the Orient taught by Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar, and, for the first time, an interdepartmental major in oceanography. The Political Science Club at Northwestern secured academic credit for students to work in Springfield as aides to Illinois legislators...
...decade of performing in the West, Indian Sitar Master Ravi Shankar, 47, has won a devoted following among musicians from Jazzman Dave Brubeck to Beatle George Harrison. But only one notable Westerner has ever performed with him: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 51, longtime apostle of Indian culture and faithful practitioner of yoga. The two met in India in 1952, and Menuhin persuaded Shankar to play last summer at the Bath Festival in England. In what both performers termed "an experiment," Menuhin practiced his violin for two days under Shankar's coaching so that he could sit in on a raga...
...experiment was such a success that Shankar and Menuhin decided to expand on it in a London recording studio. The result is one of the year's most fascinating-and briskly selling-classical albums; released in the U.S. on an Angel label, it has sold 15,000 copies in six weeks. Menuhin plays two ragas worked out by Shankar (the rest of the album is given over to a solo by Shankar and a performance of Enesco's Sonata No. 3 by Menuhin and his pianist sister Hephzibah). On the first, a violin solo, Menuhin spins...
...improvisations, Menuhin displays not only his accustomed technical brilliance but also an amazingly supple and knowing way with the complexities of the Indian musical idiom. The collaboration also makes a point that is often overlooked even by aficionados: for all his influence on Western jazz and pop, Shankar is an excellent classical musician...