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I thought her name was Anoushka. -- Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Ritchford" <tom@swirly.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 7:33 AM Subject: Re: Raga > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "MIKO" <m-i-k-o@attbi.com> > > > >> Bravo. To whom? > >> > >> Did you guys know that Norah Jones (oh God I love her voice) - is >Ravi > >> Shankar's daughter? > > > >No kidding. > > where'd she get a name like Nora Jones then? > > > > > Shankar's also way cool of course. > > > >He plays too many notes too fast for me. > > I seem to remember Salieri saying something like that about Mozart in > Amadeus... > > I have to say that I wasn't really familiar with Ravi Shankar's work >until I > saw him play Alice Tully about 10 years ago. I expected him to be > western-influenced > and instead he presented a very formal and classical show which was > also very expressive. > > Highly recommended is his collaboration with Yehudi Menuhin, "East Meets > West" -- Menuhin gets raga form and the ornamentation style almost > instinctively, it's uncanny. I also have a short interesting >avant-garde > CD whose name escapes me now, a sound track for a film, on the BBC > label, with some lovely cuts with exotic instrumentation that I cannot > place by ear (some of it sounds like a glass harmonica, for example)... > > /t > -- > > http://loopNY.com ......................An "open loop": shows every Saturday! > http://extremeNY.com/submit .......................... submit to the calendar. > >