Performance

Ravi Shankar's evocative music

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At Town Hall, the World Music Institute presents the Ravi Shankar Ensemble in a program that traces the working legacy of Ravi Shankar’s writing for sitar-led orchestra. Sukanya Shankar appears as vocalist alongside Anoushka Shankar and Shubhendra Rao, with the ensemble moving between raga structure, composed passages, and carefully staged improvisation. Shankar’s New York history runs deep, from early U.S. concerts to later cross-genre collaborations that helped shift how Indian classical music was heard in American halls. The music’s lasting point is its discipline: it asks for patient listening and rewards it with clear architectural logic.