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April 13, 2011
Entertainment & Arts
Anoushka Shankar had the ultimate teacher when she began playing the sitar: her father, Ravi. Now he’s found she can teach him as well.
May 31, 1998
Music
Anoushka Shankar links songs of India and Spanish flamenco
April 21, 2012
Anoushka Shankar’s ‘Rise’ blazes a trail beyond Indian classical music.
Sept. 25, 2005
It’s been nearly a half-century since Ravi Shankar almost single-handedly began to bring the pleasures and the complexities of Indian classical music to the West.
April 28, 2006
Live: Anoushka Shankar at the Hollywood Bowl
Sept. 22, 2009
At first blush — make that the first washes of drone and scale that prepare a listener to enter into the harmonic realm of a raga — the idea that Pacific Symphony would choose an India-centric program for its Carnegie Hall debut might seem curious, if not downright quirky.
April 13, 2018
Pop Music* An October recital by famed sitarist’s daughter will open the World Stages series at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.
Feb. 12, 2002
Ravi Shankar looked small and a bit frail when he came on stage at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa on Sunday night.
June 2, 1998
I prepared for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Friday night by listening to a recording of Ravi Shankar playing the lovely dawn raga “Lalit” as L.A.’s morning light poured in the window.
Jan. 14, 2017