Advertisement
Sitar Virtuoso Ravi Shankar
ResumeHe brought Indian music to the world. We'll remember sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar.
Ravi Shankar did not play with the Beatles on “Norwegian Wood.” That was George Harrison learning the sitar. But it was Ravi Shankar, sitar virtuoso and master of classical Indian music, who built the bridge between East and West.
Inspired John Coltrane. Jammed with Yehudi Menuhin. Played for Zubin Mehta. For Bangladesh. For India. Opened up the world. Died this week at 92.
This hour, On Point: remembering the great Ravi Shankar. Zubin Mehta is with us.
-Tom Ashbrook
Guests
Ken Hunt, music critic, broadcaster and lyricist. He's Ravi Shankar's approved biographer.
Karthik Seshardi, sitarist and musical disciple of Ravi Shankar.
Zubin Mehta, Indian conductor of western classical music. He collaborated with Ravi Shankar and the London Philharmonic Symphony on Shankar’s second sitar concerto in 1981.
From Tom's Reading List
BBC "Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar has died in a hospital in the US, aged 92. His family said he had been admitted to the Scripps Memorial Hospital in San Diego last week, but had failed to recover fully from surgery. Shankar gained widespread international recognition through his association with The Beatles."
Video
This program aired on December 14, 2012.