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����Ӱҵ Libraries presents The Concert for Ravi Shankar on Tuesday, April 24 at 2:30 p.m at ����Ӱҵ. The concert, to be held in Shepard Hall, Room 95, celebrates the life and work of iconic sitarist Ravi Shankar.

Shankar (1920-2012) taught at City College in the fall of 1967, and most recently, ����Ӱҵ Music Librarian Michael Crowley and the with the support of the Grammy Foundation and East Meets West Music completed the digitization of Shankar’s ����Ӱҵ lecture recording. During the concert, Crowley will briefly showcase highlights from these rare, unreleased recordings.

“In the lectures, Shankar explains the origins of North Indian classical music as well as the music theory behind it; he leads the students in singing exercises and teaches them devotional songs,” said Crowley. “There are also some remarkable musical demonstrations by sarodist Aashish Khan, tabla-player Alla Rakha as well as a performance with Shankar on sitar.”

A performance of North Indian classical music will be given by sitarist . For more information about Ravi Shankar at ����Ӱҵ, please visit . The digitized recordings and scanned course documents are now accessible at the on campus.

The digitization process was made possible by funding from the Ravi Shankar Foundation, the and the with the work facilitated by ����Ӱҵ Libraries and Steve Addabbo, transfer engineer at .

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