Ravi Shankar, in mathematics, joined the faculty in July. Shankar, who specializes in inverse problem and applied mathematics, has a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, and a B.A. from California ...

Ravi Shankar took Indian classical music to world stages and introduced the sitar to Western audiences. His influence can still be felt today, 100 years after his birth.

Ravi Shankar, the Grammy Award-winning Indian sitar virtuoso who became the world’s leading representative of South Asian music, exerted a major influence on popular music in the 1960s and was ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The late Indian music virtuoso Ravi Shankar taught as a visiting professor at the City College of New York at the height of the hippie era during the 1960s.

Sitar player Ravi Shankar died Tuesday at the age of 92. Brian Q. Silver, a sitar player with over 40 years of experience, talks about playing the unique instrument and how Shankar popularized the ...

Ravi Shankar, Who Brought Eastern Music To Western Legends, Dies : The Record When he was just 10 years old, Shankar began performing in Europe and the US with his family's Indian dance troupe.

Sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar, who has died aged 92, played a leading role in promoting and popularising classical Indian music around the world. He introduced the Beatles to the Indian ...