Performance

Ravi Shankar's Music

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At Town Hall, **Ravi Shankar’s Music** is presented as a staged concert portrait of the sitarist-composer’s late-20th-century project: an Indian classical revue shaped for Western concert halls while keeping its rhythmic and improvisational spine. The World Music Institute’s Ravi Shankar Ensemble performs alongside Sukanya Shankar, Anoushka Shankar, and Shubhendra Rao, treating the repertoire as a living archive rather than a tribute. In a city long marked by South Asian diasporic performance, this appearance reads as a New York chapter in a transatlantic history first formalized in the 1970s. The most telling detail is the ensemble’s emphasis on continuity, not nostalgia.