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Re: Raga



I thought her name was Anoushka.

-- Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Ritchford" <tom@swirly.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: Raga


> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "MIKO" <m-i-k-o@attbi.com>
> >
> >>  Bravo.  To whom?
> >>
> >>  Did you guys know that Norah Jones (oh God I love her voice) - is 
>Ravi
> >>  Shankar's daughter?
> >
> >No kidding.
>
> where'd she get a name like Nora Jones then?
>
>
> >  > Shankar's also way cool of course.
> >
> >He plays too many notes too fast for me.
>
> I seem to remember Salieri saying something like that about Mozart in
> Amadeus...
>
> I have to say that I wasn't really familiar with Ravi Shankar's work 
>until
I
> saw him play Alice Tully about 10 years ago.   I expected him to be
> western-influenced
> and instead he presented a very formal and classical show which was
> also very expressive.
>
> Highly recommended is his collaboration with Yehudi Menuhin, "East Meets
> West" -- Menuhin gets raga form and the ornamentation style almost
> instinctively, it's uncanny.   I also have a short interesting 
>avant-garde
> CD whose name escapes me now, a sound track for a film, on the BBC
> label, with some lovely cuts with exotic instrumentation that I cannot
> place by ear (some of it sounds like a glass harmonica, for example)...
>
>      /t
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