LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - CIRCA 1970: Ravi Shankar sits with Beatle George Harrison in London, England, circa 1970. (Photo by Anwar Hussein/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The casting is significant. Ravi ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — The walls of Sanjay Sharma’s music shop are lined with gleaming string instruments and old photographs of legendary musicians. Beatles George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

What comes to our minds first when we think about Pandit Ravi Shankar is how he successfully introduced the West to the ragas of the East. And in the words of Ravi Shankar himself, his performance at ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Long before all-star benefit concerts were commonplace fundraising events, Shankar and his friend George Harrison organized the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971 to help refugees caught in that territory ...

Family and tradition figure prominently in Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's season finale when sitarist Anoushka Shankar makes her LACO debut, under Music Director Jaime Martín's baton, with a ...

FILE - DECEMBER 11: Sitar player Ravi Shankar has died at 92. Ravi Shankar performing at the Barbican Centre, London on 4th June 2008 during his Final Tour of Europe. - Non- exclusive. (Photo by ...

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 ...