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Indian spiritualism and music were like a magnet for George Harrison and their involvement in his own music abated not one ...

A sitar and a piano can share a stage, but they can never truly agree on a single note. One is tuned to the pure ratios of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can praise The Beatles for a lot of reasons. High on that list should be the fact that they refused to settle on strategies that worked for them in early successes. Instead, they kept pushing 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 ...

NEW DELHI - With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and ...

Clad in high-collared vests and baggy cotton trousers, the three barefoot Indian musicians sat down cross-legged on an Oriental carpet on the stage of Judson Memorial Hall at Manhattan’s Washington ...

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 ...

George Harrison first heard Indian music while in utero. His mother Louise hoped the calming melodies of the Eastern music played on Radio India would help calm her rambunctious unborn son. However, ...