Word: tabla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...involvement in movies proved a watershed. Director Conrad Rooks, who was making Chappaqua, a counterculture movie with a score by Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar, asked Glass to write down Shankar's complex, exotic melodies so that six bewildered Parisian studio musicians could play them. "Ravi and his tabla player, Alla Rahka, kept telling me I was getting it all wrong," Glass recalls. "No matter how I tried to notate the music, they kept shaking their heads. Out of sheer desperation, I just eliminated the bar lines altogether -- which, of course, revealed the fact that Indians don't divide music...