Music director ravi biography books
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Indian Sun is a large book teeming with larger-than-life characters, not all of whom are called Ravi Shankar. Oliver Craske gives us a whole complex world, or, if you like, two complex worlds, Indian and Western, meeting, sometimes uneasily, through music.
Shankar is at the center of the story, but it’s the other people in his life who help us understand him. He enjoyed numerous personal and professional relationships over the years with such distinguished musical people as Benjamin Britten, Philip Glass, George Harrison, Yehudi Menuhin, John Coltrane and many other musicians from the classical, jazz and popular worlds, as well as with many Indian musicians. Indeed, it’s likely that some people picking up this book will do so because they know of Shankar’s association with The Beatles, in particular George Harrison, perhaps remembering the sitar featuring in songs such as “Norwegian Wood” (actually written before the two met) or “Within you, without you.”
For a while, of course
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My Music, My Life
To be clear, Indian classical music is a legitimate and rich aesthetic tradition, complete with its own norms, grammar, repertoire, and constraints. However, truly understanding it seems to require learning and reflecting on it over time. Many musicians—perhaps out of self-interest or misguided beliefs—continue to perpetuate the mysticism surrounding it.
The three-star rating is for:
Some useful discussions of Indian musical concepts that newcomers may find interesting.
Excellent photographs and high-quality print production.
Basic sitar exercises that might be helpful for students.
That said, approach this book with skepticism, and be prepared to sift through a heavy dose of mystical embellishments.
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Ravi (composer)
Indian composer (1926–2012)
This article is about the music director. For the Sitar player, see Ravi Shankar.
"Ravi Sharma" redirects here. For the Communist Party of India (Maoist) politician, see Ravi Sharma (Maoist).
Musical artist
Ravi Shankar Sharma (3 March 1926 – 7 March 2012), often referred mononymously as Ravi, was an Indian music director who had composed music for several Hindi and Malayalam films.[2]
After a successful career in Hindi cinema, he took a hiatus in the 1970s and made a successful comeback in 1982 in the Malayalam music en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film under the stage name Bombay Ravi.[3]
Biography
[edit]Ravi was born in Delhi on 3 March 1926. He had no formal training in classical music; instead he learned music by listening to his father sing bhajans. In 1947 he went meet the famous singer Mohammed Rafi who was singing at the independence day celebration event ‘Jashn e Jamhooriat’ at the Coronation Hotel, Fatehpur, Delhi. He tol