Ravi Shankar: Celebrating a Life in Music at The Grammy Museum

On the eve of the public opening of the GRAMMY Museum's latest special exhibit, Ravi Shankar: A Life In Music, the Ravi Shankar family will present an evening celebrating India's most esteemed musician, who is credited for bringing Indian classical music to the West, initiating the Concert for Bangladesh, and influencing generations of Western classical, jazz and pop musicians. The five-time GRAMMY-winning virtuoso was compared to Mozart by the late Yehudi Menuhin and called the "Godfather of World Music" by late Beatles member George Harrison. The evening will feature the screening of a short documentary film, followed by a special performance from a trio comprised of Barry Phillips on cello, Lakshay Mohan Gupta on sitar and Aayush Mohan Gupta on sarod. Phillips studied Indian classical music under Shankar and assisted him on several projects, including the piece written for Mstislav Rostropovich and Anoushka Shankar. Sitarist Lakshay Mohan Gupta and sarodist Aayush Mohan Gupta are grand disciples of Shankar's and considered to be "musical grandchildren." The trio's music will showcase a unique meeting of the East-West sound and illustrate how the legacy of Ravi Shankar is being taken forward. Also in attendance will be Sukanya Shankar, wife of the late Ravi Shankar....

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On the eve of the public opening of the GRAMMY Museum's latest special exhibit, Ravi Shankar: A Life In Music, the Ravi Shankar family will present an evening celebrating India's most esteemed musician, who is credited for bringing Indian classical music to the West, initiating the Concert for Bangladesh, and influencing generations of Western classical, jazz and pop musicians. The five-time GRAMMY-winning virtuoso was compared to Mozart by the late Yehudi Menuhin and called the "Godfather of World Music" by late Beatles member George Harrison. The evening will feature the screening of a short documentary film, followed by a special performance from a trio comprised of Barry Phillips on cello, Lakshay Mohan Gupta on sitar and Aayush Mohan Gupta on sarod. Phillips studied Indian classical music under Shankar and assisted him on several projects, including the piece written for Mstislav Rostropovich and Anoushka Shankar. Sitarist Lakshay Mohan Gupta and sarodist Aayush Mohan Gupta are grand disciples of Shankar's and considered to be "musical grandchildren." The trio's music will showcase a unique meeting of the East-West sound and illustrate how the legacy of Ravi Shankar is being taken forward. Also in attendance will be Sukanya Shankar, wife of the late Ravi Shankar.

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