India's finest musicians light up the Albert Hall with tribute to Ravi Shankar

Stars of the Indian classical music world – including Hariprasad Chaurasia and Anoushka Shankar – gathered for a long and festive night of virtuosityFor all the echt-English setting of the Royal Albert Hall, this was largely a south Asian affair – musicians and audience both ­– and certain norms had therefore to be upheld. So we run late, of course, although only modestly behind schedule. The “felicitations” of artists, that flower-strewn staple of Indi...

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