The Apu Trilogy comprises three Indian Bengali-language drama films directed by Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (1959). The original music for the films was composed by Ravi Shankar.

Dec 12, 2012 · Shankar was on a path to international stardom during the 1950s, playing the sitar in the Soviet Union and debuting as a soloist in Western Europe and the United States. Two early albums also had...

The sitar is many people’s first introduction to Indian classical. Its sparkling, vocalistic approach to melody has left an imprint on genres from pop, rock, and jazz to classical minimalism, capturing ears around the world.

In 1970, Shankar ushered in a major period of East-West collaboration with his first of three concertos for Sitar and Orchestra, commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra and premiered under Andre Previn.

May 7, 2015 · Telling the story of the childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood of Apu, a boy living in an impoverished village, The Apu Trilogy follows him from the remote corners where he frolicked around the forest with his sister, soaking in the various personalities of his elders – his stern and traditional but loving mother, his sweet, free ...

Shankar made full use of his childhood experience in scoring the magical Benares scenes in the second film of the Apu Trilogy; in 1978 he founded a research institute for music and the performing...

Oct 20, 2021 · The young Ravi Shankar, who composed most of the music for the Apu Trilogy—a Bengali born in Benares in 1920, the very year in which Satyajit Ray’s Apu arrives in the city—first came to...

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Shankar was an Indian sitar performer and composer who brought North Indian classical music to the world. Born in British India, he grew up dancing in a touring tandem with his brother, until turning to the study of music and the sitar.

The Apu Trilogy’s enormous success helped catapult Shankar to stardom around the world. In the sixties, he was instrumental in sitar music’s becoming an international sensation, performing in a revelatory, climactic set at the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival in California; in the seventies, he toured with George Harrison.