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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>He will be missed, as his music informed and shaped
a generation of Americans, who became the Liberals of today ( old fashioned
though we are, we still believe in diversity, honesty, and
decency!).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Debi R-S</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=starbliss@gmail.com href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">Ted Moffett</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:00
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Ravi Shankar,
Father to Musicians Norah Jones & Anoushka Shankar, Dies at 92</DIV>
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<P><STRONG>I was watching "Democracy Now" this morning and was amazed and
delighted to suddenly see concert footage of Ravi Shankar and his daughter
Anoushka, both playing sitar on stage. <BR></STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>Wow! <BR></STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>I did not know Ravi had died, then Amy Goodman announced
this.</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>I am not very familiar with Ravi Shankar's music, having heard only
one or two albums of his, though I absolutely love the sitar, which I think is
one of the most amazing instruments humans have ever created.</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>Sometimes when I pick up my guitar, it seems like a silly child's
toy compared to the sitar, which I have attempted to play. However, Jimi
Hendrix proves this quite wrong!<BR></STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>Singer/musician Norah Jones is very famous, and I am certain many
on Vision2020 have heard her music. What many may not know, is that Ravi
Shankar is her father!</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>I like Norah Jones music, but I am a much bigger fan of Ravi's
daughter Anoushka's music, which ranges from more traditional Indian sitar
playing, to more westernized styles of music. <BR></STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>Not that I am an expert judge, but Anoushka is claimed to be a
sitar virtuoso in her own right, and I have albums of her playing sitar with
Ravi and others that indicate this is indeed the case.</STRONG></P>
<P><B>Anoushka plays on Stings album "Sacred Love:" ( <A
href="http://www.sting.com/discography/index/ablum/albumId/28/tagName/Albums">http://www.sting.com/discography/index/ablum/albumId/28/tagName/Albums</A>
) and Sting sings on one of Anoushka's more westernized albums, "Breathing
Under Water," on which sister Norah Jones also guests: <BR></B></P>
<P><B><A
href="http://www.anoushkashankar.com/albums/breathing-under-water/">http://www.anoushkashankar.com/albums/breathing-under-water/</A><BR></B></P>
<P><B>"Breathing Under Water" is very different than some of Anoushka's
earlier albums, which are very traditional Indian music. They're all
amazing!<BR></B></P>
<P><B>Watch/listen to Ravi and Anoushka in concert both playing sitar on
YouTube. Amazing music! Numerous other music options are shown for
Anoushka's music on YouTube at this website:</B><BR><STRONG></STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG><A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG2moqxqIaE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG2moqxqIaE</A><BR></STRONG></P>
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<H1>Sitar legend Ravi Shankar dies at 92</H1>
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<DIV class=cnnByline>By <STRONG>Ben Brumfield</STRONG>, CNN</DIV>
<DIV class=cnn_strytmstmp>updated 3:59 PM EST, Wed December 12,
2012</DIV></DIV>
<P><STRONG><A
href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/12/showbiz/california-ravi-shankar-obit/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/12/showbiz/california-ravi-shankar-obit/index.html</A><BR></STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>(CNN)</STRONG> -- His music transcended trends and cultural
barriers. Pandit Ravi Shankar's life, which traversed nearly a century, ended
Tuesday.</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2">The legendary sitar player, <A
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t79aI-I6ucA" target=_blank>who taught
Beatle George Harrison how to play the stringed instrument </A>and brought
Indian music to the West, passed away at age 92 in the early evening in San
Diego, near his home, according to his wife, Sukanya, and daughter Anoushka
Shankar, who were by his side.</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3">Shankar was the father of jazz
singer Norah Jones as well. He is also survived by three grandchildren and
four great-grandchildren, according to his record label, East Meets West
Music.</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4">His health had suffered over
the past year, according to a statement from his record label, and he
underwent heart valve replacement surgery last Thursday.</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4">Unfortunately, despite the best
efforts of the surgeons and doctors taking care of him, his body was not able
to withstand the strain of the surgery," his wife and daughter said. </P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph6">In the 1960s, he took Eastern
music mainstream in the West. He lent ethereal, spiritual sounds to the Fab
Four through his friendship with Harrison, who recorded them on the "Sgt.
Pepper's" album in the song "Within You Without You."</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7">Virtuoso performances at
Monterey in 1967 and Woodstock in 1969 helped cement Shankar's place in
Western musical history as an ambassador of Eastern wisdom to a generation
looking for new values.</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8">"Ravi was a great loss
musically, spiritually and physically. God bless to Ravi's family. Peace &
Love," Beatle Ringo Starr said in a statement released through a
representative.</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9">Singer Peter Gabriel hailed
Shankar as an inspiration who "opened the door to non-western music for
millions of people around the world."</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10">"He was very serious about his
music, and I remember at one WOMAD performance, he stopped the music to ask
his audience not to point their feet at him as that was seen as offensive in
India," Gabriel said in a statement. "He was also warm, witty and mischievous
as a man. He will be badly missed."</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph11">Even actress Pamela Anderson
weighed in <A href="https://twitter.com/PamelaDAnderson"
target=_blank>tweeting</A> one of Shankar's music videos.</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph12">In Bangladesh's bloody war of
separation from Pakistan in 1971, Shankar and Harrison launched what UNICEF
calls the first massive fund-raising pop event, The Concert for Bangladesh, to
generate donations for the flood of refugees pouring into India.</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph13">Later, from 1986 to 1992,
Shankar put his politics into practice as a member of India's upper house of
parliament, the Rajya Sabha, or state assembly, serving with India's current
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph14">"It was difficult, often, to
judge what was more remarkable -- the man or his music," Singh said of Shankar
on Wednesday. He praised him as one of India's "most effective cultural
ambassadors."</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph15">Both houses of parliament
observed a moment of silence in his honor.</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph16">Shankar's musical career had a
long life before and after the '60s. He was born on April 7, 1920, and when he
and Harrison met, he was already 46 and famous in India as a classical
musician, according to his record label biography.</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph17">His classical career outlived
his counterculture fame, but he continued to meld East with West and composed
concertos, which harmonized his sitar with orchestras. He played duos with
American classical violin maestro Yehudi Menuhin and composed with American
minimalist Philip Glass. He also wrote film music for the Hollywood movie
"Gandhi."</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph18">Shankar kept homes in the
United States and India.</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph19">Despite ill health, he shared
a stage with his daughter Anoushka, also a sitar virtuoso, in early
November.</P>
<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph20">It was his last public
performance.</P>
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<P class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph20">Vision2020 Post: Ted
Moffett<BR></P>
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