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NEW YORK -- The kids didn't seem to know how to respond as Ravi Shankar began his four-hour set on the final afternoon of the Monterey Pop Festival in the fabled summer of 1967. As captured in D.A.

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“What Andrés Segovia is to the guitar, what Pablo Casals is to the cello, so Ravi Shankar is to the sitar. The master. The one who you might say revolutionized the instrument.” This is how Chicago ...

NEW YORK, NY – Schirmer Theatrical, a division of Wise Music Group, has announced the formation of The Ravi Shankar Ensemble and its inaugural 12-city U.S. tour in 2026. This new concert production ...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and ...

(AP) Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over a 10-decade ...