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Shankar, Ravi

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Shankar, Ravi (b Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 1920). Indian sitar-player and composer. Dir. of instr. ens., India Radio, 1949–56. Founder-dir., Kinnara Sch. of Mus., Bombay, 1962. Toured Europe and N. Amer. giving sitar recitals which led to awakening of interest in Indian mus. Wrote opera- ballet Ghanashyam (A Broken Branch) (1989), ballet scores, 2 concs. for sitar and orch. (1971, 1976), and film and TV mus. incl. Gandhi and Alice in Wonderland. Hon. KBE 2002.

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