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'Godfather of world music' passes away

Updated: 2012-12-13 15:12
By Muneeza Naqvi and Ravi Nessman in New Delhi (China Daily)

'Godfather of world music' passes away

George Harrison(left), of the Beatles, sits cross-legged with his musical mentor Shankar in Los Angeles, on Aug 3, 1967. [Photo/Agencies]

His last musical performance was with his other daughter, sitarist Anoushka Shankar Wright, on Nov 4 in Long Beach, California. His foundation said the appearance was to celebrate his 10th decade of creating music. The multiple Grammy winner learned that he had again been nominated for the award the night before his surgery.

"It's one of the biggest losses for the music world," said Kartic Seshadri, a Shankar protege, sitar virtuoso and music professor at the University of California, San Diego. "There's nothing more to be said."

As early as the 1950s, Shankar began collaborating with and teaching some of the greats of Western music, including violinist Menuhin and jazz saxophonist Coltrane. He played well-received shows in concert halls in Europe and the United States, but faced a constant struggle to bridge the musical gap between the West and the East.

Describing an early Shankar tour in 1957, Time magazine said, "US audiences were receptive but occasionally puzzled."

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His close relationship with Harrison, the Beatles lead guitarist, shot Shankar to global stardom in the 1960s.

Harrison had grown fascinated with the sitar, a long-necked string instrument that uses a bulbous gourd for its resonating chamber and resembles a giant lute. He played the instrument, with a Western tuning, on the song Norwegian Wood, but soon sought out Shankar, already a musical icon in India, to teach him to play it properly.

The pair spent weeks together, starting the lessons at Harrison's house in England and then moving to a houseboat in Kashmir and later to California.

Gaining confidence with the instrument, Harrison recorded the Indian-inspired song Within You Without You on the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, helping spark the raga-rock phase of 60s music and drawing increasing attention to Shankar and his work.

Shankar soon found himself playing on bills with some of the top rock musicians of the era. He played a four-hour set at the Monterey Pop Festival and the opening day of Woodstock.

Though the audience for his music had increased considerably, Shankar, a serious, disciplined traditionalist who had played New York City's Carnegie Hall, chafed against the drug use and rebelliousness of the hippie culture.

"I was shocked to see people dressing so flamboyantly. They were all stoned. To me, it was a new world," Shankar told Rolling Stone magazine, speaking about the Monterey festival.

The Associated Press

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