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Shankar, Coltrane, Whitman: Within You, Without You
December 12, 2012 2012 is full of deaths at the year’s end. Dave Brubeck last week; this week, Ravi Shankar. Shankar was half an American musician (the fractions don’t have to add up to a zero-sum game). Since 1970 he … Continue reading
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Tagged Beatles, California Institute for the Arts, Don Juan, Encinitas, Faust, George Harrison, Gounod, Jean-Pierre Rampal, John Coltrane, Mozart, Mtislav Rostropovich, Norwegian Woods, Philip Glass, Proud Music of the Storm, Ravi Shankar, Rossini, San Diego, Walt Whitman, William Tell
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