| rdfs:comment | - The Indian music genius Ravi Shankar was a special guest at the Woodstock festival. He made his first appearance to the western world at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967, followed by an invitation from Beatle George Harrison. In the wake of spiritualism and the search for new influences his music became very popular, but Shankar wasn't fond of the drug-consuming and partying crowd of young people. Shankar started at about 10 pm on Friday evening and played for over 40 minutes throughout the rain. __TOC__
- Ravi Shankar (1920-2012) was a world famous sitarist and composer. He recorded over 70 albums in his lifetime and scored or contributed music for over a dozen films. He worked with the likes of Yehudi Menuhin, André Previn, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Philip Glass, and George Harrison. His contributions to film include the 1966 TV version of Alice in Wonderland (with John Gielgud and Peter Sellers), and Richard Attenborough's 1982 biopic, Gandhi (with Ben Kingsley and Candice Bergen). He also played at countless concerts and music festivals, including Woodstock in 1969. His daughter is Norah Jones.
- Ravi Shankar is one of the recipients of Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award of India.
- EMI 5 86555 2_A_500.jpg EMI 5 86555 2_L.jpg CD 1 Morning Love for sitar & flute 12:14 / Raga Piloo for sitar, violin & tabla 14:42 / Prabhati for sitar, violin & tabla 4:13 / Concerto for sitar & orchestra, No. 1: 1. Raga Khamaj 14:22 / 2. Raga Sindhi Bhairavi 6:13 / 3. Raga Adana 3:32 / 4. Raga Manj Khamaj 15:35 CD 2 Raga Puriya Kalyan 11:48 / Sawara Kakali for sitar, violin & tabla (based on Raga Tilang) 8:49
- Ravi Shankar, (Bengali: রবি শংকর, IPA: [ˈrɔbi ˈʃɔŋkɔr]; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012), his name often preceded by the title Pandit, was an Indian musician who was one of the best-known exponents of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century as well as a composer of Hindustani classical music.
- In 1967 Indian classical music was fashionable due to George Harrison's use of the sitar on some Beatles tracks, so Peel responded by occasionally playing tracks by Ravi Shankar on his Perfumed Garden show on Radio London. When he was hosting Top Gear on BBC Radio 1 he featured sessions by Indian classical musicians Vilayat Khan and Imrat Khan, despite the fact that their music was radically different from anything else heard on the station. On Night Ride, too, shorter Indian music tracks were regularly featured. Indian-influenced music, such as that of John McLaughlin's band Shakti, which included tabla player Zakir Hussain, son of Ravi Shankar's tabla accompanist Alla Rakha, could be heard on Peel's 1970s programmes. The DJ chose Shakti's session for his programme as one of 1977's sessio
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| abstract | - The Indian music genius Ravi Shankar was a special guest at the Woodstock festival. He made his first appearance to the western world at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967, followed by an invitation from Beatle George Harrison. In the wake of spiritualism and the search for new influences his music became very popular, but Shankar wasn't fond of the drug-consuming and partying crowd of young people. Shankar started at about 10 pm on Friday evening and played for over 40 minutes throughout the rain. __TOC__
- EMI 5 86555 2_A_500.jpg EMI 5 86555 2_L.jpg CD 1 Morning Love for sitar & flute 12:14 / Raga Piloo for sitar, violin & tabla 14:42 / Prabhati for sitar, violin & tabla 4:13 / Concerto for sitar & orchestra, No. 1: 1. Raga Khamaj 14:22 / 2. Raga Sindhi Bhairavi 6:13 / 3. Raga Adana 3:32 / 4. Raga Manj Khamaj 15:35 CD 2 Raga Puriya Kalyan 11:48 / Sawara Kakali for sitar, violin & tabla (based on Raga Tilang) 8:49 Concerto for sitar & orchestra No. 2 ("Raga Mala, a Garland of Ragas"): 1. Lalit (Presto) 16:36 / 2. Bairagi (Moderato) 8:11 / 3. Yaman Kalyan (Moderato) 14:32 / 4. Mian ki Malhar (Allegro) 12:46
- In 1967 Indian classical music was fashionable due to George Harrison's use of the sitar on some Beatles tracks, so Peel responded by occasionally playing tracks by Ravi Shankar on his Perfumed Garden show on Radio London. When he was hosting Top Gear on BBC Radio 1 he featured sessions by Indian classical musicians Vilayat Khan and Imrat Khan, despite the fact that their music was radically different from anything else heard on the station. On Night Ride, too, shorter Indian music tracks were regularly featured. Indian-influenced music, such as that of John McLaughlin's band Shakti, which included tabla player Zakir Hussain, son of Ravi Shankar's tabla accompanist Alla Rakha, could be heard on Peel's 1970s programmes. The DJ chose Shakti's session for his programme as one of 1977's sessions of the year. But by the time punk arrived in the late 70's, world music was rarely played on his shows. It was only in the 80's that Peel started to play more modern styles of world music, but mostly from Africa instead of Asia. (He is not known to have played any records by Anoushka Shankar, or by Ravi Shankar's other daughter, Norah Jones, who gained great commercial success and critical acclaim in the early 2000s.) In the late 80's, classical Indian music was virtually replaced on Peel's playlist by another, more pop-influenced music of Indian origin called Bhangra, which Peel played quite regularly on his show until his death in 2004.
- Ravi Shankar (1920-2012) was a world famous sitarist and composer. He recorded over 70 albums in his lifetime and scored or contributed music for over a dozen films. He worked with the likes of Yehudi Menuhin, André Previn, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Philip Glass, and George Harrison. His contributions to film include the 1966 TV version of Alice in Wonderland (with John Gielgud and Peter Sellers), and Richard Attenborough's 1982 biopic, Gandhi (with Ben Kingsley and Candice Bergen). He also played at countless concerts and music festivals, including Woodstock in 1969. His daughter is Norah Jones.
- Ravi Shankar is one of the recipients of Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award of India.
- Ravi Shankar, (Bengali: রবি শংকর, IPA: [ˈrɔbi ˈʃɔŋkɔr]; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012), his name often preceded by the title Pandit, was an Indian musician who was one of the best-known exponents of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century as well as a composer of Hindustani classical music. Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956. In 1956, he began to tour Europe and the Americas playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison of the Beatles. Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. In 1999, Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna. He continued to perform up until the end of his life.
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