Word: sitarist
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...students to his class at U.C.L.A., a figure previously reached there only by Playwright William Inge. U.C.L.A.'s theater-arts department has also snared John Houseman and Josef von Sternberg, expects to land Ingmar Bergman next fall. Its art department has had Jacques Lipchitz; its music department, Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar, Composers Roy Harris and John Vincent - and even a whole quartet in residence, the Feri Roth chamber group...
...arms, and with slender, agile fingers began to coax from its steel strings a piercingly plaintive, twangy melody. Beside him the tabla (drum) thrummed and rataplanned a shifting, syncopated beat, and behind him a four-stringed, unfretted lute named the tamboura thinly droned its hypnotic accompaniment. Thus Sitarist Shankar, India's most widely famed contemporary musician, last week gave U.S. listeners a taste of his country's traditional music...