Word: sitars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traumatic ordeal for him. He says, "The kind of person I am, so nervous. Every day I become more nervous. I have no confidence in my music. When I find out after a concert I did superbly, I am surprised. It is like I am a dummy with the sitar and God played...
...country he spent much of his time reflecting on the differences between Eastern and Western cultures. He disapproves greatly of musicians who experiment with mixing the two, valuing tradition over innovation. Attempts to make Indian music more palatable to American audiences by doing such things as writing concertos for sitar or playing Indian music on the saxophone, strike him as a compromise. "I myself will never try to mix two colors to create a third," he says. "It is easy to do that, but it is harder to work with just one color...
Vilayat Kahn gives a concert and lecture of sitar music at Cabot Hall, South House...
Before he spoke, Chinmoy played three pieces on an esraj, an Indian string instrument similar to the sitar...
Unlike earlier music programs for children, this one does not toe the classical line. In an allegro collage that threatens the viewer with musical vertigo, the initial program arcs from the Beach Boys to Beethoven, Indian sitar music to music of the Renaissance, the Vienna Boys Choir to the Olympia Brass Band of New Orleans. In subsequent episodes, the series settles down to explore the major elements of music: rhythm, melody, harmony, style. Sidlin provides comic relief as, at a flick of his baton, he changes from conductor to the Melody Doctor or to the loudmouthed host of What...