A fascinating program that mixes West and East on the “Evening Concert”
...from the Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts series...
A “Sitar Concerto”? Yes. Indeed. On tonight’s Evening Concert from Los Angeles
The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument used in Hindustani classical music. The 20th C. master of the instrument best known in the West was Ravi Shankar (d. 2012).