Ravi Shankar & Anoushka Shankar at War Memorial Opera House on May 12, 2005

SFJAZZ presents Ravi Shankar & Anoushka Shankar
War Memorial Opera House,
San Francisco War Memorial Performing Arts Center, 301 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102-4509 USA
7:30 PM, Thursday, May 12, 2005

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1. [07:40 PM] [Introduction by Randall Kline]
   - part one -
2. [07:43 PM] [tuning]
3. [07:45 PM] [RS introduces Raga ?Bageshri, a late evening raga]
4. [07:46 PM] alap » jor
5. [08:06 PM] gat in rupaktal (7 beats: 3-2-2)
    
   - part two -
6. [08:17 PM] [tuning]
7. [08:19 PM] [RS introduces Raga ?Jarugeshri]
8. [08:20 PM] Gat in Teental (16 beats: 4-4-4-4) »
9. [08:32 PM] Gat in Ektal (12 beats: 4-4-2-2)
   [set one ends ~8:40 PM]

1. [09:04 PM] [applause at entrance, tuning]
2. [09:07 PM] [RS introduces Raga ?Manj Kumanj, in semiclassical form]
3. [09:09 PM] Gat 1
4. [09:38 PM] Gat 2
   [show ends ~9:45 PM, no encore]

• Tanmoy Bose: tabla;
• Kenji Ota: bass tanpura;
• Barry Phillips: treble tanpura;
• Anoushka Shankar: surbarhar;
• Ravi Shankar: sitar.

Despite (or because of?) the location, this was one of the best Ravi Shankar shows I ever attended. The crowd roared their love at the very start of the show, offering a long standing ovation to their hero, and he responded in fine fashion, crafting music fit for Heaven!

Like usual, Ravi did a fine job introducing the pieces to us rubes, but I've undoubtedly mangled the names and descriptions. Let me know if you can offer any help with corrections!

Jim Harrington posted a brief review of the show in the East Bay Times. Unfortunately, he didn’t really offer any detailed commentary about what happened, only that it was sublime and way too short!

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2005 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2005 event list! ☸ On to the next event!