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...Sitar music performer and composer Ravi Shankar...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: 14 to Receive Honorary Degrees | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

Shankar, 73, has had an illustrious career as a sitar player and composer...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: 14 to Receive Honorary Degrees | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

Festival of India Celebration: Symphony Hall, Ravi Shankar, sitar, and Alla Rakha, tabia, Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: October 10-16 | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

Dunster House Music Society--Brian Silver, sitar and surbahar; Midnight Ragas; Dunster House Library, midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oct. 15-21 | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: The Sound is God | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

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