tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post1115984277743437738..comments2024-03-15T20:32:39.815+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Without Ravi I would have ended up a boring old fartUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-39784068197341267232012-12-12T13:28:24.781+00:002012-12-12T13:28:24.781+00:00A great musician indeed, and an inspiration for m...A great musician indeed, and an inspiration for me. I was fascinated by his playing and the forms of it from my first hearing, but I always returned to it when I was gearing up to write programme notes or another essay on Flamenco. The nexus of the two is most clear in those Flamenco forms that use the enharmonic scale and touch upon microtonality (which brings to mind Cage's Microtonal Ragas). I should, I must say, the sooner have heard Ravi perform with a Flamenco cantor and guitarist than with Yehudi Menuhin. I really can't doubt that that would have been vastly more revealing. But never mind -- he left us a cornucopia of recordings, opened many Western ears, and he will be greatly missed globally, this last a great part of his achievements.Philip Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739418522974972567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-57353919600574177122012-12-12T10:05:16.321+00:002012-12-12T10:05:16.321+00:00Memories of Ravi Shankar from Norman Perryman here...Memories of Ravi Shankar from Norman Perryman here - http://www.overgrownpath.com/2012/09/one-foot-in-past-and-one-in-future.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com