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...Sitar music performer and composer Ravi Shankar...
Shankar, 73, has had an illustrious career as a sitar player and composer...
Festival of India Celebration: Symphony Hall, Ravi Shankar, sitar, and Alla Rakha, tabia, Friday...
Dunster House Music Society--Brian Silver, sitar and surbahar; Midnight Ragas; Dunster House Library, midnight...
...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...