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Ravi Shankar setting up music training centre in Delhi
Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar
is busy setting up a centre in Delhi to impart advanced training in music
and research. “The building is ready. This is not going to be just
a training centre. We are going to do lots of research and offer very
high standards of learning in a ‘gurukul’ system to only a few
students,” he said.
There will be archives and recording facilities. We are getting help from
famous musicians for the project. It should be ready by July or August
this year”, he added. The 79-year-old artiste, who is scheduled to
give an exclusive concert in Dubai, said, “I will not give up public
performances until you don’t want to listen, don’t get offer
for performances, my fingers don’t move and my head is without imagination”.
Pandit Ravi Shankar said he had always been nervous when giving performances
and the Dubai concert was no exception. He said he liked all kinds of
music but could not stand the pounding and loud ones. Jazz was an area
which appealed to him. “I also like pop music, especially the lyrical,
soft, melodious compositions”.
Pandit Ravi Shankar, who has been nominated by the Indian government as
the cultural ambassador of India, said classical music had been subject
to tremendous influence from television and other media but “the
scene is not bad yet and there is great hope.” There were a number
of fantastic boys and girls in both South (Carnatic) and North (Hindustani)
India doing a wonderful job,” he felt.
UNI