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Ali Akbar Khan


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Sarode Master, Composer, Educator. More than 100 albums; more than 20 international awards including a MacArthur Foundation 'genius grant.' Credited with introducing classical music to the West in 1955. Ali Akbar Khan has had a career thus far that is nothing shor of amazing. He has won respect the world over for his mastery of the sarode--a 25-stringed northern Indian lute. In 1967, he opened the Ali Akbgar College of Music, now in San Rafael, California, recognizing what he called "the extraordinary interest and the abilities" of his students in the West." (Vanity Fair, November '04))

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The name is familiar. didn't he do some work with George Harrison?

:wha':

He's often mentioned with Ravi Shankar - dont know if he worked with George Harrison or not, but it wouldnt surprise me if he did

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