"Raga" director Howard Worth (left) chats with Ravi Shankar (second from left), George Harrison and an unidentified woman on a boat off the south of France in 1971. They were there attending the Cannes Film Festival.
"Raga" director Howard Worth (left) chats with Ravi Shankar (second from left), George Harrison and an unidentified woman on a boat off the south of France in 1971. They were there attending the Cannes Film Festival.
Howard Worth was an unlikely choice in the early 1970s to make a documentary about Indian music legend Ravi Shankar.
While he had been steadily making a name for himself in television in the early 1970s — working on Walter Cronkite's acclaimed Sunday afternoon TV series "Twentieth Century," then directing a Peabody Award-winning documentary on Africa — he still had not made a major film. And until that point he barely knew a thing about raga music.
"But a friend of mine who I met in East Africa kept telling me I should do a film on Ravi Shankar," Worth remembered. "And I said ...
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Howard Worth was an unlikely choice in the early 1970s to make a documentary about Indian music legend Ravi Shankar.
While he had been steadily making a name for himself in television in the early 1970s — working on Walter Cronkite's acclaimed Sunday afternoon TV series "Twentieth Century," then directing a Peabody Award-winning documentary on Africa — he still had not made a major film. And until that point he barely knew a thing about raga music.
"But a friend of mine who I met in East Africa kept telling me I should do a film on Ravi Shankar," Worth remembered. "And I said ...
READ MORE.... HERE.
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