Word: sitarist
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Although their elders may be bored by it, students are not yet tired of the anti-Warren Commission crusade of Attorney Mark Lane. The psychedelic sound of musical groups such as the Jefferson Airplane is welcome, although the cost (up to $8,000 an appearance) is far from popular. Sitarist Ravi Shankar is both a mystical and musical attraction, while LSD Guru Timothy Leary has slipped noticeably. Surprisingly enough, one of the most ubiquitous campus speakers among show business personalities is television's square old M.C., Art Linkletter, who has hit 20 campuses in the past two years, drew...
...York landed Nobel-prizewinning Physicist Chen Ning Yang for a state-subsidized $100,-000 Albert Einstein Chair in Science. Endowments frequently support visiting professorships, such as one at the City College of New York, named after C.C.N.Y. President Buell G. Gallagher, which this year is held by Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar...
...bowed to 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...
RAVI SHANKAR IN NEW YORK (World Pacific). The master sitarist's latest rendition of the sound that has infiltrated jazz and indeed reOriented all Western popular music. Ever since the Beatles endorsed Shankars traditional Indian music last year, his ragas have become all the rage. From the long-necked, gourd-bellied sitar, Shankar strokes a whining, hypnotizing stream of spontaneous melodies within the framework of a predetermined pattern of notes. The Eastern "scales" he uses are now definitely required running by jazz musicians, especially bassists, whose solos frequently echo his soulful, inscrutable improvisations...
Eleanor Rigby, also scored for strings but boldly modern in harmonics and urgent cross-rhythms. In Love You To, they incorporated the sinuous sounds of Indian music, which Beatle George Harrison picked up during six weeks of study with Sitarist Ravi Shankar; soon raga-rock was all the rage...