{"id":8862,"date":"2013-02-06T15:19:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8862"},"modified":"2013-02-06T15:19:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:19:44","slug":"ravi-shankar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/02\/ravi-shankar\/","title":{"rendered":"RAVI SHANKAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"R<\/strong>AVI SHANKAR<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Tenth Decade: Live in Escondido<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[East Meets West]<\/p>\n

In light of Shankar\u2019s death on\u00a0 Dec. 11, 2012, Tenth Decade <\/em>will likely stand as the final major release from an iconic musician who bridged East and West like no other. Filmed at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido, Calif., in October 2011, the nearly 90-minute performance finds the master sitar player\u201491 at the time, sporting a full gray beard and using a cane as he takes the stage\u2014still remarkably supple and inventive. Navigating the instrument\u2019s multiple strings with the same dexterity and vitality he displayed nearly a half-century earlier at the Monterey Pop Festival, Shankar and his accompanists\u2014a second sitarist, a flutist, two tabla players and two men working the lute-like tanpura\u2014are in perfect sync from the opening notes of the evening\u2019s first raga, \u201cYaman Kalyan.\u201d The second, a slow-builder of more than 20 minutes titled \u201cKhamaj,\u201d projects the hypnotic, enveloping, mysteriously droning splendor that first enthralled Western audiences. Whether Shankar needed a break after that workout, he gets one when the drummers take over for the display of virtuosity that is \u201cTaal Vadya,\u201d but he returns for \u201cGoonga Sitar,\u201d during which he mutes his instrument to give it what he describes in his introduction as a \u201cdry\u201d sound. For the finale, \u201cRaga Mala,\u201d an airy and luminous piece that escalates in intensity and settles back again, the camera zooms in on Shankar\u2019s nimble fingers. There is nothing to suggest he\u2019s a man nearing the end, nor even a man who accepts aging\u00a0as a reality of life. \u2013Jeff Tamarkin<\/p>\n

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RAVI SHANKAR Tenth Decade: Live in Escondido [East Meets West] In light of Shankar\u2019s death on\u00a0 Dec. 11, 2012, Tenth Decade will likely stand as the final major release from an iconic musician who bridged East and West like no other. Filmed at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido, Calif., in October 2011, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,5950,5885,3675,5949],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8864,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions\/8864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}