Bangalore goes crazy with joy celebrating Sri Sri Ravishankars birhtday

Bangalore is overflowing with people from different parts of India
and many visitors have arrived here to celebrate all the way from
Argentina to Mongolia.

Not a single hotel room is available anywhere in bangalore...
The who's who's of Hinduism have all descended in bangalore to witness
the 25 th year celebrations of Art of Living....

Its gonna be like this for 3 more days

But
I am gonna sit at home and watch it in the comfort of my home....

http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=18603&n_tit=Bangalore%3A+Over+2.5+Million+to+Attend+Art+of+Living+Silver+Jubilee+Function


Happy Birthday Sri Sri Ravishankar......

What I like about about Ravishankar other than his philosophy is that he has never resorted to cheap gimmicks to gain publicity and followers.(like producing gold chains from thin air and holy ash )

Catch the programme on a channel in your country if you can......

 

Great man.

 

I'll have to find out about him - not heard of him before. I thought the post was going to be about Pandit Ravi Shankar - IMHO among the best musicians to grace this planet.

 

I thought that first as well...and I agree that he is an awesome musician...I had gotten the Concert for Bangladesh DVD for Christmas...and watching him play...its just amazing... plus, of course, his mixings of Eastern and Western music...

 

I was lucky enough to catch him playing live at WOMAD festival back in the late 90's. Beyond anything else I've ever heard or seen musically by about a factor of a million. Total magic. It is as though God Himself were just channeling this stuff through Ravi Shankar.

 

As a lifelong ardent lover of Hindustani classical music, I have to say, Ravi Shankar leaves me absolutely cold. His music conveys nothing beyond mathematical calculated skill. No soul.

Now Ali Akbar Khan... he was a great musician. The only times Ravi Shankar was passable to me, was in jugalbandhi with Ali Akbar Khan. Truly great sitar players are rare these days, the greatest of our age passed away last year. Ustad Vilayat Khan. He had true soul in his music.

Ravi Shankar's work was totally watered down to suit western audiences. On the other hand, his great and completely magical soul-stirring disciple, Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, has performed in many brilliant cross-over albums without ever once compromising the integrity of his musical roots and is perhaps the greatest Hindustani instrumental musician of this age.

 

Just shows how easy it is to fool people like me.

But if Ravi Shankar's music has no soul how can that of his pupil be any better?

 

What VM Bhatt learnt from Ravishankar was not music, for he already had the music in him. What he learnt was how to express it. The techniques, the math of it, the systems of music. But what he did with that far exceeds anything that Ravishankar ever did.

 

I'll give him a listen sometime if I can. Really, I know little about Indian classical music.

 

i like ravi shankar's (the musician) daughter's music and think she, norah jones has lots of soul

 

I like both Norah and Anoushka's music...both are very talented in their field.

 

Sunrise, sunriseLooks like morning in your eyesBut the clock's held 9:15 for hoursSunrise, sunriseCouldn't tempt us if it tried'Cause the afternoon's already come and goneAnd I say hooooo, oooooo, oooooo, oooooohooooo, oooooo, oooooo, oooooohooooo, oooooo, oooooo, ooooooDo you?Surprise, surpriseCouldn't find it in your eyesBut I'm sure it's written all over my faceSurprise, surpriseNever something I could hideWhen I see we made it through another dayAnd I say hooooo, oooooo, oooooo, oooooohooooo, oooooo, oooooo, oooooohooooo, oooooo, oooooo, ooooooDo you?And now the nightWill throw its cover downmmmmm, on me againOoooh, and if I'm rightIt's the only way to bring me backhooooo, oooooo, oooooo, oooooohooooo, oooooo, oooooo, oooooohooooo, oooooo, oooooo, ooooooDo you?hooooo, oooooo, oooooo, oooooohooooo, oooooo, oooooo, oooooohooooo, oooooo, oooooo, ooooooDo you?

 

Bill, and anyone else, you might be interested in www.musicindiaonline.com, which has a wide variety of classical music, both hindustani and carnatic, devotional chants, bhajans, film music and more. There are the very best of artists onthat site, but you have to weed out the mediocre.

As for Anoushka, I think she is completely insipid, lacking even her father technical mastery. She's all about appearances, that one.

Norah Jones on the other hand, has never sung a note that didn't touch me. Of course she was spared her fathers influence, he having left after knocking her mom up. Her mother, a pianist, was her real musical influence.