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| | Ravi Shankar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শঙ্কর Robi Shôngkor, Hindi:रवि शंकर) (born April 7, 1920 in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India) is a Bengali-Indian composer best known for his virtuosity on the sitar. |
 | | Ravi Shankar has written two concertos for sitar and orchestra, violin-sitar compositions for Yehudi Menuhin and himself, music for flute virtuoso Jean Pierre Rampal, and music for Hozan Yamamoto, master of the shakuhachi (Japanese flute), and koto virtuoso Musumi Miyashita. |
 | | Shankar is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a member of the United Nations International Rostrum of Composers. |
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