The "raga" is the melodic form, but it is not just a scale, Shankar says. There are roughly 72 parent scales. And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sitarist Pandit Shubhendra Rao leads the Ravi Shankar Ensemble on their U.S. tour, which begins with a Monday show at The Egg in ...

The Ravi Shankar Ensemble—a multi-generational collective of world-class musicians curated by Anoushka and Sukanya Shankar— will embark on a 14-city debut tour this Spring from Schirmer Theatrical, ...

Songwriter Sanctuary at Normal Heights United Methodist Church. March 27. Songwriter Sanctuary is a monthly, ...

George Harrison lacked something in the mid-1960s, but legendary sitarist, Ravi Shankar, filled that void with Indian music. In 1965, nothing impressed George, not even his idols like Elvis Presley, ...

There are some melodies that never fade—they linger in the air, travel across time, and quietly return to you when you least ...

Curated by the maestro's widow Sukanya and his daughter Anoushka, the Ravi Shankar Ensemble is a multi-generational collective of world-class musicians dedicated to the masterful compositions and ...

Lucknow: Artists paid a musical tribute to Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar on his 107th birth anniversary at ‘Sangeet Ki ...

The new documentary about George Harrison, which airs this week on HBO, is garnering praise from across the media landscape (“a significant and substantially new take on the band and its most elusive ...

Ravi Shankar and George Harrison impressed each other when they met in the mid-1960s. The universe brought them together at the exact moment they needed each other. George craved change, for someone ...

Some melodies linger long after the last note fades, weaving themselves into memory and returning to you in quiet, unexpected ...

Sitarist Shubhendra Rao, who studied under Shankar, looks to bring his guru's music to the masses again with an American tour. Sitarist Pandit Shubhendra Rao leads the Ravi Shankar Ensemble on their U ...