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Ravi Shankar

December 2024

  • Ajivasan Musical Academy Organizes Vasantotsav 2023, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - 26 Feb 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Vijay Bate/Hindustan Times/REX/Shutterstock (13784162ad) Ustad Zakir Hussain, Niladri Kumar Indian musician Niladri Kumar Indian musician during the Vasantotsav 2023 by Ajivasan a musical academy at Ajivasan Building, Santacruz, on February 26, 2023 in Mumbai, India. Ajivasan Musical Academy Organizes Vasantotsav 2023, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - 26 Feb 2023

    Zakir Hussain obituary

    Virtuoso tabla player whose work with a variety of musicians included composing for films

July 2022

  • Satyajit Ray in 1989.

    The Guardian view on Satyajit Ray: a genius of cinema

    Editorial: Not to see Ray’s films was like not seeing the sun or the moon, said Akira Kurosawa. A retrospective affords you the chance

March 2022

  • Gratte Ciel’s Place des Anges (Place of Angels) - an aerial ballet that takes over Womadelaide each night, culminating in a tonne of feathers raining down upon the crowd.

    Womadelaide’s unforgettable moments: ‘They didn’t know what to expect’

    From an all-star train ride across the Nullarbor to an unexpected cricket plague, this year’s festival marks 30 years of border-defying music and art

January 2022

  • George Harrison performs at the Concert For Bangladesh, 1971.

    From the Guardian archive
    The Concert for Bangladesh album review – archive, 1972

    4 January 1972: The live record of George Harrison and friends performing at New York’s Madison Square Garden to raise money for refugees in Bangladesh

April 2021

  • Amit Chaudhuri

    Finding the Raga by Amit Chaudhuri – a passion for Indian music

    The renowned novelist explores the thrill of improvisation in a delightful, insightful book that is part singing diary, part memoir and part musical history

April 2020

  • Anoushka Shankar, Indian sitar player and composer.

    Life on a plate
    Anoushka Shankar: 'Dad said he could make a really good dal, but I never saw him cook'

    The musician and daughter of Ravi Shankar talks about Bengali food, having George Harrison as an uncle and being Asian in California
  • Ravi Shankar

    Indian Sun by Oliver Craske review – a virtuosic portrait of Ravi Shankar

    From love affairs and hippiedom to life as a cultural ambassador – a comprehensive biography unpicks the great sitar player’s complex legacy
  • Deeper meaning in his music develops as you listen ... Ravi Shankar.

    Listener's digest
    Ravi Shankar: where to start in his back catalogue

    In Listener’s Digest, our writers help you explore the work of great musicians. Next up: don’t let the Indian sitar master’s daunting discography of 75 albums and 15 film scores put you off

September 2019

  • ‘We don’t look at this job as a business’ ... Hemen &amp; Co in Kolkata, India. Makers of traditional sitars, they supplied them to George Harrison and Ravi Shankar.

    Inside Hemen & Co: the tiny Kolkata sitar shop that supplied the Beatles

    George Harrison and Ravi Shankar were loyal customers. More than 70 years since it opened, this family business is still crafting instruments that last a lifetime

August 2019

  • Humping Hendrix … the poster for Monterey Pop, the documentary featuring 1967 festival acts Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding and the Who.

    How we made
    'It felt like a wonderful dream' – DA Pennebaker on making Monterey Pop

    In a final, previously unpublished Guardian interview, the late great documentarian looks back at his groundbreaking film with Lou Adler, the legendary music festival’s promoter

October 2018

  • Other lives
    Annapurna Devi obituary

    Other lives: Indian musician and teacher

August 2018

  • John Lennon and George Harrison sit by a river in Rishikesh, India, in 1968.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs inspired by India

    Artists taking musical inspiration on our final playlist include the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Monsoon and David Sylvian

May 2017

  • Sukanya

    Sukanya; Don Carlo; L'Orfeo review – to hell and back

    Eastern and western classical traditions dance the night away in Ravi Shankar’s beautifully staged opera. Plus, mesmerising Monteverdi
  • The Royal Opera's Production Of Ravi Shankar's Sukanya At The Curve Theatre, Leicester<br>LEICESTER, ENGLAND - MAY 10: Rukmini Vijayakumar (Dancer) with artists of the company in the Royal Opera's production of Ravi Shankar's Sukanya directed bySuba Das and conducted by David Murphy at The Curve Theatre on May 10, 2017 in Leicester, England. (Photo by Robbie Jack/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Sukanya review – Ravi Shankar's opera is both sublime and ridiculous

    This new opera that blends the western form and Hindustani classical music makes for a ravishing spectacle but its music and libretto fail to consistently convince

    • Anoushka Shankar: 'I still get to interact with my father through the music'

    • Five of the best… new classical concerts
      La Bohème and Sukanya: this week’s best UK classical concerts

    • The ten best things to do this week
      The 10 best things to do this week: Brighton festival and Angels in America

March 2017

  • George Harrison with Indian Musician<br>(Original Caption) Hollywood: Beatle George Harrison, (L), listens as Ravi Shanker of India plays the sitar, 8/3, a 25-stringed guitar-like instrument. Harrison said he is studying the sitar under Shanker, because Indian music makes God come through in a spiritual way." Harrison is vacationing in Southern California.

    Macca’s banjo, Mellotron and a Monkee: the story of George Harrison’s Wonderwall Music

    Almost 50 years ago, the Beatle stepped aside from the planet’s biggest band to create the soundtrack to Joe Massot’s movie Wonderwall. With the help of India’s finest musicians, he invented the idea of the world music crossover

September 2016

  • Anoushka, Ravi and Sukanya Shankar, supplied by Albion Media

    Ravi Shankar opera to get posthumous world premiere

    Sukanya, a Hindu tale named after the sitar great’s wife and completed by their daughter Anoushka, will be semi-staged at Leicester’s Curve with the LPO

May 2016

  • Festival of Indian Classical Music at the Royal Albert Hall, 22 May 2016 A Classical Odyssey - A Tribute to Maestro Ravi Shankar Image shows: Anoushka Shankar

    India's finest musicians light up the Albert Hall with tribute to Ravi Shankar

    Stars of the Indian classical music world – including Hariprasad Chaurasia and Anoushka Shankar – gathered for a long and festive night of virtuosity
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