Ravi Shankar interview

Title

Ravi Shankar interview

Genre

Interview

TX Date

16 Apr 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:03:21

Description

Rodney Bennett interviews Indian sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar about trying to get people in the West to understand Indian music, how Western and Eastern music can go together, working with a Western orchestra, taking a youth orchestra to India, and performing in the Soviet Union.

Contributors

Rodney Bennett; Ravi Shankar

Keywords

India; Musicians; Music; Orchestras; Ravi Shankar; Indian classical music; Youth orchestras; European Youth Orchestra

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