East meets west ravi shankar biography
From East To West: Remembering The Great Ravi Shankar!
West Meets East
1967 studio album by Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar
West Meets East is an album by American violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, released in Britain in January 1967.[2] It was recorded following their successful duet in June 1966 at the Bath Musical Festival, where they had played some of the same material.[3]
The album was issued in America on EMI's Angel Records imprint in June 1967.[4]West Meets East was number 1 on Billboard's Best Selling Classical LP's list for eighteen weeks in 1967 and continued to top that chart through January the following year.[5] It also placed on the mainstream national chart (later the Billboard 200), where it peaked at number 161.[6] In February 1968, the album won the 1967 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance,[7][8] the first time that an Asian musician had won a Grammy.[9] This recognition co