Without...Yehudi Menuhin, the West may not have found Indian classical music and decades later...thanks to Menuhin's chance meeting and later lasting friendship with the master sitarist Ravi Shankar, the Wets witnessed the sublimity that the merging of the Western and Indian classical music could produce. (Ravi Shankar)

Without...Yehudi Menuhin, the West may not have found Indian classical music and decades later...thanks to Menuhin's chance meeting and later lasting friendship with the master sitarist Ravi Shankar, the Wets witnessed the sublimity that the merging of the Western and Indian classical music could produce.

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