Legend Ravi Shanker is dead

If there is one musician who crossed the borders between East and West is difficult, it was the sitar maestro Ravi Shankar.
Panditji, as he was called by his fans, it was true his craft. "He was an amazingly pure artist," says Kartik Seshadri is Shankar sitar master students and their rights.
With guitarist George Harrison, violinist Yehudi Menuhin, the saxophonist John Coltrane, composer Philip Glass and conductor André Previn - While it is often thought of in the West as an experimenter and employees, Shankar was a traditionalist.
Indian classical music is as old as the scriptures of Hinduism, wetting his fingers with ease. His music banned, even those who did not know one iota about the complexity of IT.

"That's the beauty of his approach to the music, and how he is able to translate it was, and the audience in the West." Seshadri says

Shankar took introspective to playful music.



"There is a whole range of emotions that finds a place for people," says Seshadri.
Shankar died on Tuesday in San Diego, his home for many years. He was 92 and led a life rich with success and awards.
I was one of those people who are amazed when I first listened to Shankar.
I was still in high school in Tallahassee, Florida, where Shankar and his company came to town performance at Florida State University School of Music in December, 1978.

There was only a slight Indian family in Tallahassee, and not much was available to us through popular culture. It was a rare treat for us to see Shankar concert.
My mother was especially excited. She was trained in voice and sang more talented India, Rabindranath Tagore, India only Nobel laureate for literature. She played the harmonium with her songs and sometimes, tanpura, stringed instrument that resembles a sitar, but do not worry.
It was a moment of pride - that at a time when India was known to many of my American friends in the country of human suffering. If we want to be proud of the size of our country, we said Shankar name.A few days before the concert organizers called my mother with a special request: she can have dinner for musicians? Shankar's Bengali was craving for home-cooked meals.

But, yes, my mother. Proud teacher can cook are you? Nuts and raisins, chicken curry, lentils and Sandesh, sweet milk, known as Bengal, especially the spicy rice pilaf - Then came the day after cooking.
Performance night, Opperman Music Hall was packed. Shankar is covered with light and music in the air, well-spoken and rich in flavor, and Benarasi silk saris fill.
I do not understand the melodic and rhythmic forms of music playing at night.
I knew that he was the music acclaimed director Satyajit Ray wrote, "the three APU." But unlike millions of other people my name is Ravi Shankar, the Beatles, and turned Concert Bangladesh.