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Between the two world wars, his elder brother Uday Shankar was the leader of the first company of Indian dance to know international. A recognition that passed through Paris, where his family lived for two years.

Ravi Shankar, youngest of the clan, was even educated here. “I went to École Saint-Joseph, Michel Ange Molitor, we lived in a beautiful house place of Auteuil, Andrés Segovia lived not far away and we had the privilege of meeting great artists and musicians permanently.” Familiar with European capitals, the kid of Benares is a great shock when the troupe landed on American soil. There, he coasted the all-Hollywood, evenings where he crossed the stars then. “I took years to acquire a good knowledge of the world that well helped me later”, he said.

Learning Indian classical music

From the age of 18, Ravi Shankar devoted colossal to explore classical music a time and energy. After leaving the cast of his brother, he hesitated between the various options available to him: dance, cinema and music. His meeting with his guru, Ustad Allauddin Khan – said Baba – sarod player was crucial here. “I was very influenced by my brother, but Baba changed my life. When I knew him, I was a spoiled child. He taught me the importance of discipline, something which I did not see the interest at the beginning…” The training of Indian classical music requires a relationship between the guru and his disciple. Transmitted orally, the art of the raga requests a total investment on the part of the latter. So many things that the young Ravi was not prepared, who left early a modest life in India for the ors of international luxury hotels. “When I met Baba, I had never known anyone as much rooted in the past and tradition. It was full of principles, with a bad temper but also capable of full of love. It took me time to enjoy it.” Baba also fulfills the role of father with Ravi Shankar, who had very little known his. For seven years he followed his rigorous teaching, which allowed him to become the sitar virtuoso. “I been so fortunate to have Baba. Today, when I play, I continue to seek his blessing”, emphasized again a few years ago.

In the 1950s, Shankar became a musician very prominent component of the music in film (for Director Satyajit Ray, among others), and by turning abroad. In a few years, he became the true Ambassador of music Hindustani in the West. A role which acquitted with pleasure, taking time to explain the mysteries of melodic and rhythmic motifs ancestral. «Present the music of my country to the West was my biggest motivation.» My advantage over other musicians, is that I already knew Western culture.” The first with whom he forged a great complicity outside the India was the violinist Yehudi Menuhin. “He was like a brother to me, both excellent musician and wonderful human.”

“George Harrison: both a friend, a son and a disciple”.

But the one who helped her to become an international superstar, is George Harrison, guitarist of the Beatles, then at the height of their popularity when he met him in London in 1966. “It has presented me them all four, but I immediately found very different George. From the beginning, I felt that he loved deeply the culture and Indian philosophy.” Ravi Shankar approved less the incursions of the sitar on the songs of the Beatles as Norwegian Wood or Within You, Without You. “I said openly to George that I didn’t like at all this. But if he had the time to train, he would become a great sitar”. The two men will remain close until the death of Harrison in December 2001. “George was at the time a friend, a son and a disciple for me. Before our meeting, I knew nothing at the rock apart from one or two movies of Elvis, but he was loaded in this atmosphere. There, I started to play in front of bearded and scalp, people who felt the patchouli and the marijuana. “I wanted to much to the agent who found me these commitments: it is impossible to listen to Indian music in the same State of mind as pop.”.

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Nov 15

By The Music Unit

By Japanese News On Music

11 / 15 / 2012 12:46

Fujioka Minami (Vo) to withdraw from the PANDA 1 / 2 with the 12 月 31 日 was announced.

Fujioka is on the official Web site for fans “made had, sharing of growth, excitement and real time pounding the fans really helped, I really enjoyed. Thanks so much “and show their appreciation with” but I somehow well not while there is a feeling that this half a year to act as a PANDA 1 / 2 too much, and want to create even a little better performance, has stalled and conflicts have been. Started to think is better here fixed partitions once for myself, for the PANDA 1 / 2, “and described the reason for withdrawal.

Fujioka, ongoing talent activities including musical activities continue. PANDA 1 / 2 to continue even after the withdrawal of Fujioka said.

PANDA 1 / 2 was formed in 2009, Minami Fujioka and music produced by James Panda Jr… by the music unit. Besides many single delivery have released so far, is to press ahead with booming Shanghai and Sri Lanka.

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Oct 12

Music Samples

By Spanish News On Music

Beijing, 11 oct.-the dances and music of the Peru Andean Peruvian group dazzle hundreds of Chinese as part of the activities to the South American country celebrates this month in China to spread their culture and art through the Yachay Raymi 2012 festival.

“We have understood that we have to show the Peruvian culture that is very rich and that much like in Europe and the whole world.” “We are proud to represent our country and somehow, and without that we appoint, we consider ourselves ambassadors of the Peru,” he told Efe César Pimentel, music director and founder of the Peru Andean Group, minutes before going on stage.

With a repertoire of dances and melodies of the mountains, coast and the Peru jungle, the grouping is presented for the second time in Chinese territory once in 2008, invited by the Chinese Olympic Committee, are debuting in Beijing to act in the theatre of the people.

“This is the first time that I come.” I felt very welcome and much expectation for sharing what we do, what we like: the music and dance. “So what we will do with great pleasure and I hope that people like,” said for its part told Efe, Evert Tito Quispe, musician and founder of the artistic group.

For its part, the founder of the Group of dances of Peru Andino, Mercedes Suarez Chang, told Efe that have proven that your “music and dances like a lot” and since 1985 lives in France spread Peruvian culture “at all levels”.

“Tonight we are going to be really privileged because we are going to have the chance to make a visit to the Peru.” “A musical visit that we will allow to explore the coast, jungle and saw the Peru through his music”, said for his part the Peru Ambassador in China, Gonzalo Gutiérrez.

And he added that Andino Peru is one of the most prestigious Peruvian bands that play music from all corners of the Peru.

“Do you favor cultural events, exhibitions, music samples in China?”, asked Gutierrez to present the artistic event. “The answer is obvious.” “Are these cultural acts who tend the first bridges between two peoples who have a very old tradition,” he reflected.

“I feel happy and happy.” Especially because it is the second time that we are in this country that it welcomes us very well. “We are going to bring nice memories to the Peru, we are going to tell you what we have done and what they have learned from this culture,” said for its part told Efe, Diliam Artega, dancer of the group.

Founded in 1983 – version musical, Peru Andino was completed two years later by integrating a range of dances.

The group, which represents dances and music from various regions of the Peru, officially debuted in the Auditorium of the UNESCO along with the Philharmonic Orchestra of this institution with a show entitled “Ritual journey to the land of the Incas”.

This time his musical cast performed with charangos, panpipes and guitar one of the most famous melodies of traditional Chinese folklore originating in Sichuan province (Central): Kan Ding Love. Surprising the audience to sing, one of the members, the lyrics of this song in Chinese.

And the Peruvian and Chinese ties merged even more when a few students from the Conservatory of Chinese music performed “El Cóndor Pasa” and “Virgins of the Sun” with Chinese instruments.

The event, which will have two performances in Beijing and Hebei (North), was organized by the Peru Embassy in China jointly with the Chinese Ministry of culture and the Chinese Conservatory of music in the Auditorium of the Beijing Concert Hall.

(Agencia EFE)

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Oct 02

Music Manager

By German News On Music

New York – the Chief of songwriters Sony / ATV Martin Bandier said the “New York Times”, he wants to achieve a better remuneration. “We want the service.” “We want to be paid only fair.” The statements of the influential music Manager are the first real confirmation that Apple is working at all on such a streaming service, even if there are already more rumors about the upcoming introduction. The entry of heavyweight in the business could make today’s Party.

Sony/ATV managed song rights for today’s stars such as Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift, but also for the music of the Beatles and beach boys. The company is part of the Japanese group Sony and the heirs of Michael Jackson. In the summer, she swallowed the publishing division of the shattered British music group EMI and has now around two million music rights. While the industry in sound business struggling for years with declining CD sales and music publishers are still reliable revenue provider.

The “Wall Street Journal” had reported a few weeks ago for the first time about Apple’s plans for an Internet radio and at the same time restricted that even months until a start could go because the rights negotiations.

Pandora with problems

Apple iTunes is the world’s largest music seller with its online platform. However, the streaming on the rise, where the music no longer available for download, but playback directly from the Internet is now more and more. There is a subscription services such as Spotify or RDIO, where for a month fee unlimited music can be heard. Such a service have Apple also considered, but abandoned the idea, wrote “Wall Street Journal”. Free Internet radio like Pandora, where the user of a playlist must follow rather than to seek out the songs themselves are another model.

The Apple service advertising to music should appear as in Pandora, it was said. He should run on Apple devices such as iPhones and iPads as well as possibly on Windows PC. According to information of the “New York Post” Apple striving for a more flexible license with more uses than in Pandora. Already the first report in the “Wall Street Journal” had let break the share price of Pandora.

Pandora is an example of how difficult it is to make money with the business model – the company has massive problems to play the licensing costs. Last there was a loss of $25.6 million on nearly $160 million in the completed end of July first financial half year sales. Thus, the Internet radio active almost exclusively in the United States has 54.9 million active users. Apple, however, has the advantage that it is in the business of the music industry in a better negotiating position.

Sep 30

Internet Music Radio

By German News On Music

Apple’s Internet music radio is delayed due to difficult rights negotiations with the music publisher Sony/ATV. Whose Chief Martin Bandier told the New York Times by the weekend, he wants to achieve a better remuneration of the artist. “We want the service.” “We want to be paid only fair.” At the same time, the statements of the influential music Manager are the first confirmation that Apple is working at all on such a streaming service.

Sony/ATV manages the rights for current stars like Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift, but also for songs by things such as the Beatles and the beach boys. The company is the Japanese electronics Giants Sony and the heirs of Michael Jackson. In the summer, she swallowed the publishing division of the shattered British music group EMI.

The Wall Street Journal had reported a few weeks ago for the first time about Apple’s plans for a Web radio and at the same time restricted that even months until a start could go because the rights negotiations. Apple iTunes is the world’s largest music seller with its online platform. However, the music streaming on the rise is now more and more. There is a subscription services such as Spotify or RDIO, where for a month fee unlimited music can be heard. Such a service have Apple also considered, but abandoned the idea, the Wall Street wrote journal. Free Internet radio stations such as Pandora (only in the United States available) or last.fm, where the user of a playlist generated by the sender must follow and not themselves can choose the individual songs and their order are another model. Instead, the services create the playlists for music genres and preferences of the individual user.

The Apple service should display advertising to the music, it was said. He should run on Apple devices such as iPhones and iPads as well as possibly on Windows PCs. According to information of the New York Post, Apple aims to a more flexible license with more uses than as at Pandora. Already the first report in the Wall Street Journal had can break up the share price of Pandora. (dpa)

(jk)

Sep 27

Not Only An Auswegloses Drama In Music

By German News On Music

The “Liebeslie d” is a ten minute-long shouting, air zerschneidend, herzerweichend, brain aggravating, rarely monologisch, most vielstimmiger as only dialogical. It is completely the opposite of what you would expect a hollywoodzersüßter residents of the 21st century, when he reads the generic name of “Love song”. Boy and girl or whatever who nothing harmonious with each other and not give rise to the hope of a Happy ending.

Nevertheless the whole looks ironic way intelligent and somehow funny as Jörg Widmann did the opposite of popular to express not only an auswegloses drama in music, but at the same time common expectation and its opposite through irony to overcome. And, after all, is the piece musically extremely complex, technically demanding and requires a conductor for the eight musicians of Ensemble Modern. Jörg Widmann will itself lead and thus completes the portrait of the composer, which perform the Ensemble Modern for him in the old opera, to a facet.

Facets but this Jörg Widmann portrait of current “kick-off” Festival is not poor. The Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Simon Rattle showed his deep roots in the history of music, Widmann en suite “Flûte” between Haydn’s Symphony in c minor HOB 1: 95 when she and Beethoven placed seventh.

Widmann achtteilige suite for flute and Orchestra Group calls off a wealth of timbres and game strategies of the flute and puts them in tonal contexts where the old dance movements are marked at least mostly metric recognisable. Only once, in the end, the entire sound-body of the Orchestra with the flute makes common cause, and hardly one could have found a better soloists as Emanuel Pahud (at most perhaps Dietmar Wiesner of the Ensemble Modern).

Kinda funny

The popular success of this relatively intricate composition was matched by the popular success of the at least as tricky, but not equal inclusion Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, which enormously effective, solid and transparent at the same time and with intense tempos realized the Berliners. This is in the nature of things called “Konzerthaus” are filling in the face of a run of the Berliner Philharmoniker with high expectations, that were totally satisfied.

Underestimate we but not the ensemble modern, which has now almost a House Orchestra in the Alte Oper Frankfurt. Widmann portrait of 24 hours before the concert of the Berlin, showed a multilingual, much talented composer, which is a wealth of vocabulary and grammar of musical expressions available without precision, it would be too short.

Each piece is a unique piece with its own rules, sounds and sound patterns, references with him. The latter appear not least in piece titles, which are expressively void almost exclusively generic such as “Air” or “Étude” or “Quintet”, which thus set frame and footnotes for that what to expect here. But “air”, a virtuoso Horn Solo (soloist was the immaculately articulating Saar Berger) refers at the same time on the air, whose Schwingung is necessary condition for the creation of music. And the “duel” between trombone and guitar (Uwe Dierksen, Christopher Brandt) is less a generic term as a musical statement of action, for which the composer provides material and suggests a course of the soloists making rousing and mercilessly alive.

Jörg Widmann writes not only precisely in many idioms, he also thinks beyond his writing and familiar exporting musicians who sound their own languages.

Aug 24

Music Lessons

By Spanish News On Music

BY drafting good life

The authors of the research found that children who played an instrument, although it was not during his childhood, have developed brain responses to complex sounds.

This is reflected for example in those who have the ability to smoothly follow a conversation in a very noisy environment, without losing the thread of spoken or distracted. Scientists point out that may be due to having executed some instrument in childhood.

“Based in what already knew how the music helps to develop the brain, the study suggests that for a brief period music lessons may benefit as we listen and learn for life,” said the author of the study, Krauss girl.

Novelty

Previous studies had concluded that music could be good for the brain, but this is the first work that suggests that the effects can be very lengthy.

“The way in which we perceive the sound now is dictated by experiences with this we have had so far,” Krauss said.

“Infer that a few years of music lessons even provide advantages at the time to perceive and respond to sounds in everyday communications, even in noisy restaurants,” he added.

Professor Krauss sees that his Studio may offer answer to one of the frequently asked questions from parents: will benefit my children go to music classes, albeit for a short time?

The research showed that those who had studied music, even for a short time, were particularly effective in removing the lowest frequency sound necessary for listening to music or words in very noisy environments.

Aug 23

Music On

By German News On Music

Music can improve the performance of the brain in the long term – and apparently already after a short time: people who a few years learn an instrument as children, can handle targeted sounds – and language – in adulthood. So it is about easy conversations in loud surroundings to follow them, report researchers in the journal of neuroscience.

To investigate, how fast and how long is this effect is noticeable, the scientists divided 45 adults in three groups. A group was musically uneducated, the subjects in the second group had the rest six to eleven years played one to five years a tool. All subjects were measured the electrical signals in the brain while eight different sounds were played before them.

The study shows that even adults who are one to five years had music in her childhood and youth, later more effectively handle sounds as musically untrained listener. Already by a few years music the brainstem learn to hide noise effectively and to strengthen relevant notes – in a conversation the language.

“Musical education in childhood makes people apparently better listeners later in life,” says Nina Kraus of Northwestern University. Already older studies with musicians and bilingual children had shown that a Hirnstramm trained by music improved the understanding and ability to communicate.

“In addition to what we already know about the effect of music on the brain, the study shows that already short lessons for life helps the listening and learning”, says Kraus. “We hope to be able to use the new knowledge in combination with older studies to develop a music program that could help disadvantaged children, to improve their capacity.”

Aug 10

Liturgical Music

By French News On Music

For a few centuries previously, the offers village of Marciac takes pride in being a step towards Santiago de Compostela (on the path of Arles). For thirty-five years, this city of 1 350 inhabitants, in ordinary times, said the current music and jazz to his credit. Internationally renowned festival that may meet in August of hundreds of thousands of fans of jazz and tourists, in the college option jazz and other sustainable initiatives.

With its prominent Tower in the round, the highest of the diocese, the main church Notre-Dame – de – L’Assomption summarizes in a picture of pierre this welcome connivance between the cultural, the worship and the local spiritual. On one of the capitals of the vast place of prayer, the visitor discovers the medieval sculpture of a lay brother playing an instrument to wind the time: the Horn of mountain became, over time, trumpet of Fame for Marciac Republican and citizen.

The present here summarizes everything. In 2001, writer Christian Bobin, in one of his books (resurrect)

(, Gallimard) brought in its own way the spirit of the place: “God rests in Marciac, Gers.”. No doubt has long sought such village where everything would be in its rightful place – the sky, the trees, the stones and the people… Can embrace the village of Marciac in minutes as can marry him for centuries. »

As of custom, since the end of the 1970s, the delivering of the August 15 meet Wednesday, near the square of the village where is played the bis in a same praise festival, faithful of raw and festivalgoers jazz in Marciac, worn by the accents of the gospel and liturgical music.

For 35 years, the Jazz festival in Marciac played extensions of a few days. The program is impressive, combining heads of poster and new entrants. It is awarded two Victoires du Jazz (Bojan z. and Sandra Nkake) with red thread: celebrate the voice. The new president of the Republic there has taken a bath of crowd. “We are a land of home and a festival for the greatest number, for all budgets and all tastes”

recalled here. “The 2012 edition confirms the opening in all styles of jazz and honours the fundamentals of this music.”

confirms Alex Dutilh, informed music lover, providing for years for France music of direct emissions from the city of South-Western France.

Aug 05

House Music

By German News On Music

Hall (sc). The radio will once again set it this year. After the Lantern Festival to the mdr-city avanvierte last year, it will be this year now jump, the pop wave of Central German broadcasting, which will provide for the youth at the now 77. Halle’s Heimatfest on the Peißnitzinsel, on the River Saale, and on whose banks the musical stars.

Da DJ Antoine from the Switzerland Awads, 5, who were with on recordings sold 1.5 million, 35 Golden Platinum double platinum award, and awards is the internationally most successful DJ of the Switzerland. Who is on House music, will not miss his appearance within the MDR jump arena at the 25 Augsut from 19.30. But still an other radio stations, namely radio Corax, will draw attention to themselves. Not only on the Corax meadow with a good mixed music program, the newcomer contest and the electronic set last year for the first time picnic, but also as an organizer of 1. Seifenkistenrennens in Hall. And as a transformer of the music, according to which the high-altitude fireworks on Saturday evening shot down (frequency 95.9). Countless more programme have been prepared. Everything listed in the programme, which is out next week in the market little and in the Council. On the Web at www.laternefest.halle.de. Mitteldeutschland wide is advertised with posters to guests from the region.

If you want to stream together with the Halle on the festival area, frustration could come up. Because a bridge will not be there this year on the ice rink! The new building of the transition here – financed by the Halle companies and raised donations – are 2013 only to the Lantern Festival. The city is hardly problematic: Meanwhile, so Mayor Dagmar Szabados, were all very well accustomed that one could reach this point not on the Peißnitzinsel, but must use the access via good Gimritz and the Swan bridge.

Down, who once was in a crowd to the Lantern Festival, senses how painful is this missing transition on a such a large feast could be noticeable. Finally, it aims at a visitor growth compared to 2011. At that time there were officially around 120 000 now it should according to the Mayor “120 000 plus” are.

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