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Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India
Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India was an Indian classical music revue led by sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar intended for Western concert audiences and performed in 1974. Its presentation was the first project undertaken by the Material World Charitable Foundation, set up the previous year by ex-Beatle George Harrison. Long a champion of Indian music, Harrison also produced an eponymous studio album by the Music Festival orchestra, which was released in 1976 on his Dark Horse record label. Both the CD format of the ''Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India'' album and a DVD of their performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London were issued for the first time on the 2010 Shankar–Harrison box set ''Collaborations''.
The sixteen members of Shankar's Music Festival from India included Hariprasad Chaurasia, Shivkumar Sharma, Alla Rakha, T.V. Gopalkrishnan, L. Subramaniam, Sultan Khan and Lakshmi Shankar. Several of the musicians began successful international careers as a result of their participation, and all are recognised as being among the late twentieth century's finest exponents of Indian classical music. The ensemble played in Europe in September and October 1974 before touring North America with Harrison and his band during the final two months of the year.
==Background==
Although he had composed and performed orchestral works in India, as All India Radio's music director between 1949 and 1956,〔Lavezzoli, p. 50.〕 Ravi Shankar's only similar project for Western audiences had been when he toured America with his Festival from India orchestra in 1968.〔Shankar, pp. 203–04, 324.〕 The tour featured musicians such as Shivkumar Sharma, Jitendra Abhisheki and Palghat Raghu,〔("Excerpts from a conversation between Raviji and Satish and Shashi Vyas, June 2007" ), The Ravi Shankar Foundation (retrieved 9 February 2012).〕 with Shankar's regular jugalbandi partner, sarodya Ali Akbar Khan, joining the ensemble for their concerts in California.〔Stephen M.H. Braitman, "Pop Sounds from India Rock Greek: Ravi Shankar, Greek Theatre, Los Angeles", ''Van Nuys News'', 30 June 1968; available at (Rock's Backpages ) (subscription required).〕〔Staff writer, ("Shankar, Indians To Play In Festival" ), ''The Stanford Daily'', 5 July 1968, p. 6 (retrieved 25 August 2015).〕 The plan for the larger Music Festival from India took shape in early 1974, when his friend George Harrison visited Shankar in the latter's home town of Benares.〔Leng, pp. 148, 165.〕 According to Harrison, it was something that he himself had been wanting to stage "since about '67";〔''Collaborations'', p. 15.〕 he was particularly inspired after hearing Shankar's orchestral piece ''Nava Rasa Ranga'' while in Bombay, where Harrison recorded part of his 1968 solo album ''Wonderwall Music''.〔Olivia Harrison, p. 302.〕
Unlike the Harrison-produced ''Shankar Family & Friends'', a cross-cultural project recorded in 1973,〔Rodriguez, p. 237.〕 the focus behind the new collaboration was to celebrate the traditional aspects of Indian classical music, both in concerts performed by the sixteen-piece Music Festival orchestra and in the studio.〔Lavezzoli, p. 195.〕 Shankar would act as composer and conductor, rather than musician, and only play sitar on his famed ragas during the live performances. The presentation of the Music Festival was the first project undertaken by Harrison under the auspices of his Material World Charitable Foundation, one of the aims of which was to "sponsor diverse forms of artistic expression and to encourage the exploration of alternative life views and philosophies".〔''Collaborations'', p. 32.〕
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