For some, the sound of the sitar instantly brings back patchouli-scented memories of the 1960s: tie-dyed skirts and long-playing records. It can seem like a trendy blip, redolent of a time when the ...

Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of ...

The sitar’s metal strings result in tough calluses but yield a delicate sound. The instrument – reminiscent of its Western guitar counterpart – is a plucked instrument with strings and 20 frets, used ...

Steaming plates of curry, fragrant mugs of chai, wafting incense and exotic, shimmering music being piped through a sound system - an Indian restaurant is the only setting in which many Americans ever ...

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 ...

Akshara, an up-and-coming, percussion-based ensemble rooted in Indian classical musical traditions, will perform Sunday, Oct. 12, at SUNY Cortland. Presented by the College’s Campus Artist and Lecture ...

In the mid-1960s, George met sitar legend Ravi Shankar and immediately began receiving lessons from him. Indian music took hold of George so much that he left his guitar behind. However, George ...

NORTH HILLSDALE, N.Y. - Music's beauty is enriched by its ability to adapt. On Friday evening at 7: 30 at North Hillsdale UnitedMethodist Church, a unique concert will merge centuries-old music with a ...

12 December 2012 • 8:29am Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western ...