BBC Proms 2017 - Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar

Prom 41: Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar , , Royal Albert Hall Blending Glass’s American Minimalism with traditional Hindustani classical music, sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar joins the Britten Sinfonia for the first complete live performance of Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar’s 1964 concept album Passages. Programme Philip Glass Ravi Shankar Passages (65 mins) (first complete live performance) Performers Alexa Mason soprano Anoushka Shankar sitar Ravichandra Kulur bansuri Gaurav Mazumdar sitar Britten Sinfonia Karen Kamensek conductor About This Event In the mid-1960s a rising star of Western classical music met the ‘Godfather’ of the Indian classical tradition. The result was a collision of musical worlds and – some 25 years later – a studio album that combined Glass’s American Minimalism with Shankar’s sitar and the traditions of Hindustani classical music. A hypnotic flow of sound, blending cello, saxophone and other Western ins