Composer Nicholas Brooke, who includes samples and lip-synching in his performances, to play 'Ten Transcendental Etudes' at MASS MoCA This seesaw is part of Nicholas Brooke's "Ten Transcendental ...

Ravi Shankar did more than play music. He opened up a whole world. It’s safe to say that his pinging, quavering sitar music was the first sound many in Europe and the Americas ever heard from the ...

Virtuoso sitar player, Ravi Shankar inspired a new fascination with and appreciation for classical Indian music in Western popular culture. Judy Woodruff remembers the man who tutored Beatles ...

The pair spent weeks together, starting the lessons at Harrison's house in England and then moving to a houseboat in Kashmir and later to California. Gaining confidence with the complex instrument, ...

, became a hippie musical icon and spearheaded the first rock benefit concert as he introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over nearly a century. , his connections reflected music’s ...

Ravi Shankar, the man who made traditional Indian sitar music popular worldwide, didn’t shoot to fame overnight. The musician—who was born on this day, April 7, in 1920—first began performing when he ...

The Fox News Web headline Wednesday morning captured something in the air despite its utter wrongness: “Beatles’ sitar player Ravi Shankar dies at 92.” Well, first, the Beatles’ sitar player was ...

A group of music students, some of them holding guitars and other instruments, sat in a semi-circle, listening intently for ninety minutes as the man with the sitar spoke and played for them. His name ...

More than a decade has passed since sitar maestro and bharat ratna pandit Ravi Shankar introduced 10-year-old Rishab Rikhiram Sharma on stage when he first performed as his disciple. As fate would ...

The Beatles reformed their style and sound in the late 1960s after a trip to India. Their music introduced the sitar to the West. Read more here.

Purbayan Chatterjee, a sitar virtuoso renowned for his innovative approach, continues to redefine the boundaries of Indian classical music. Celebrating the sitar as a symbol of cultural fusion, ...