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''Ravi Shankar's Festival from India'' is a double album by Indian musician and composer Ravi Shankar, released on World Pacific Records in December 1968. It contains studio recordings made by a large ensemble of performers, many of whom Shankar had brought to the United States from India. Among the musicians were Shivkumar Sharma, Jitendra Abhisheki, Palghat Raghu, Lakshmi Shankar, Aashish Khan and Alla Rakha. The project presented Indian classical music in an orchestral setting, so recalling Shankar's work as musical director of All India Radio in the years before he achieved international fame as a soloist during the 1960s. After recording the album in Los Angeles, Shankar's ensemble – also titled the Festival from India – toured America during June and July 1968. Some of the performers subsequently taught at Shankar's Kinnara School of Music, instructing Western students in the intricacies of Indian music. Shankar revisited the Festival from India concept in 1974, when George Harrison sponsored a program of European concerts titled Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India. ==History== Having achieved international fame over 1966–67,〔''World Music: The Rough Guide'', p. 109.〕 Ravi Shankar spent the early part of 1968 in India filming a documentary of his life, ''Raga'', and writing his first autobiography, ''My Music, My Life''.〔Lavezzoli, pp. 184, 197.〕 Both of these projects allowed him to reflect on his status as an ambassador for Indian culture and on the criticism that he received from purists and some fellow musicians in India, who accused him of betraying his roots and commercialising Indian classical music.〔Shankar 1999, pp. 176, 208–10.〕 In a 2007 interview, Shankar continued to refute such criticism, citing his adherence to the guru-shishya tradition, whereby he had nurtured the development of his protégés Harihar Rao, Amiyo Das Gupta, Kartick Kumar and Shamim Ahmed after moving to the United States. He also highlighted the 1968 Festival from India revue as one of many musical ventures where he had brought over other Indian classical performers that were little known in the West. Before beginning his international career in 1956, Shankar had been musical director of All India Radio〔〔Shankar 2007, pp. 92–93, 96.〕 and head of the national orchestra, the Vadya Vrinda.〔Shankar 1999, pp. 118–20, 141.〕〔Lavezzoli, pp. 56, 61.〕 Subsequently, in between his engagements in the West, he had continued to compose and perform orchestral productions, such as ''Nava Rasa Ranga'' in 1964.〔Shankar 1999, pp. 171–72.〕 While in India making ''Raga'', Shankar was filmed rehearsing with a large cast of musicians in a Bombay studio. For his Festival from India orchestra, Shankar then asked the following performers to join him in California: his sister-in-law Lakshmi Shankar (vocals), Shivkumar Sharma (santoor), Sharad Kumar (shehnai and flute), Sabri Khan (sarangi), Miskin Khan (tabla and percussion),〔Shankar 1999, p. 203.〕 Jitendra Abhisheki (vocals) and Palghat Raghu (mridangam).〔 His students Das Gupta and Ahmed contributed on tambura and sitar, respectively, while Rao's brother Taranath, although a skilled tablist, played tambura.〔Shankar 1999, pp. 113, 203.〕 In his second autobiography, ''Raga Mala'', Shankar writes that for most of these players, the 1968 Festival from India was "their first big break in the West".〔 According to Shankar's recollection, the other personnel were Aashish Khan (sarod) and Fakir Mohammad (dholak and tambura), together with musicians who had regularly accompanied Shankar during his raga recitals in the West: Alla Rakha (tabla), Nodu Mullick (tambura and swarmandel) and Kamala Chakravarty (vocals).〔 The ensemble's instrumentation also included veena and kanjira.〔〔 Some of the performers would subsequently teach at Shankar's Kinnara School of Music,〔 the students of which included rock musicians Jim Morrison〔Shankar 1999, pp. 204, 206.〕 and Robbie Krieger of the Doors, Collin Walcott〔Lavezzoli, pp. 110, 158–59, 425.〕 and Russ Titelman. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ravi Shankar's Festival from India」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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