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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 1:49 am 
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Ravi Shankar, Sitarist Who Introduced Indian Music to the West, Dies at 92


By ALLAN KOZINN
Published: December 12, 2012 in the New York Times


Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso and composer who died on Tuesday at 92, created a passion among Western audiences for the rhythmically vital, melodically flowing ragas of classical Indian music — a fascination that had expanded by the mid-1970s into a flourishing market for world music of all kinds.

In particular, his work with two young semi-apprentices in the 1960s — George Harrison of the Beatles and the composer Philip Glass, a founder of Minimalism — was profoundly influential on both popular and classical music.

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A Beatle Was Intrigued

Western interest in his instrument, the sitar, exploded in 1965 when Harrison encountered one on the set of “Help!,” the Beatles’ second film. Harrison was intrigued by the instrument, with its small rounded body, long neck and resonating gourd at the top, and its complexity: it has 6 melody strings and 25 sympathetic strings, which are not played but which resonate freely as the other strings are plucked. He soon learned its rudiments and used it that year on a Beatles recording, “Norwegian Wood.”

The Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Byrds and other rock groups followed suit, although few went as far as Harrison, who recorded several songs on Beatles albums with Indian musicians rather than with his band mates. By the summer of 1967 the sitar was in vogue.


.....more at link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/13/arts/music/ravi-shankar-indian-sitarist-dies-at-92.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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Sorry to hear of Ravi's death.

I guess his influence on George Harrison and The Beatles in turn was one of the things that exposed me to the music of India.

I have gone on to really appreciate a lot of Indian music. For instance the Ghazal Music revived by Jagjit Singh and his wife Chitra

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The Indian influence on George and the Beatles first showed on the "Sgt Pepper's" Album


Within You Without You- The Beatles


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Then again on the "Revolver" Album

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I had the Sgt Pepper cassette that I nearly wore out when I was a preteen. Within You Without You was my favorite song from that album. I found it very mesmerizing and it made me want to learn more about the sitar and hear more of it.

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Ravi Shankar at Monterey Pop (June 1967)


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