Indian Classical Music: Opening the Within (Introducing HariSongs)

When George Harrison and Ravi Shankar met in 1966, no one could have guessed we’d feel its reverberations a half-century later, or that we’d still be celebrating its fruits.

It was an inspired union: the working-class Liverpudlian, a self-taught guitarist strapped to a rock quartet destined (or doomed) to become our culture’s perpetual epicenter, and an older man of more august stock, a multilingual intellectual who studied Indian classical music under master Allauddin Khan in observance of ancient tradition.

/ LEARN MORE