Happy hundredth Birthday Pandit Ravi shankar

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One day late - Here is a national public radio tribute of Pandit Ravi Shankar https://www.npr.org/2020/04/07/828908795/the-enduring-afterglow-of-ravi-shankars-life-in-music A tribute video in Sandhya raga

 

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Honoring the legacy of the “Sitar Maestro” Pandit Ravi Shankar Ji on his 100th Birthday

Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar was an ace Indian Musician and a brilliant Hindustani Classical Music composer. Born on April 7th, 1920, at Banares in a Bengali family; Shankar was the youngest amongst his seven sibling brothers. Shankar had not met his father till the age of eight as his father; Shyam Shankar Chowdhury married another woman while practicing as a lawyer in London. Shankar lived with his mom and by this time had shortened his first named from Ravindra to Ravi which meant “sun.”

At just 10 years of age, Ravi went to Paris with a dance group choreographed by his brother Uday Shankar. At 13, he was a member of the group and started training for dance and various Indian instruments. In the early 1930s, the dance group travelled across Europe and the United States. Ravi learnt French and was discovering western classical music jazz and cinema. Allaudin Khan, the lead musician of the princely state of Maihar was spotted by Ravi at a music conference in December 1934 in Calcutta. Uday then convinced the Maharaja of Maihar and bought in Khan to be the soloist for a tour of Europe. This when the youngest Shankar started shaping under Khan to be a serious musician.

Ravi, unfortunately, had lost his beloved parents by the time he returned from Europe. Touring the west had become difficult due to the World War II. It was the year 1938 that young Ravi Shankar had given up his dancing career and started studying Indian Classical Music under Allaudin at Maihar while living amidst the Khan’s in a Gurukul system. Shankar started his training on a sitar and surbahar, also learning ragas and the music styles of dhrupad, dhamar and khyal. His companions at training were the children of Allaudin, Ali Akbar Khan and Annapurna Devi. In December 1939, Ravi Shankar performed a jugalbandi with Ali Akbar Khan which was his debut as a performer.

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It was almost a century of Hindustani Classical Music promoted by the maestro himself and the world will always be privileged and inspired by the compositions of the Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar.

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Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar was an ace Indian Musician and a brilliant Hindustani Classical Music composer. Born on April 7th, 1920, at Banares in a Bengali family; Shankar was...

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