Ravi Shankar in 90's : High & Prime
51 videos • 731 views • by Raga Mala He served as a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Parliament of India, from 12 May 1986 to 11 May 1992, after being nominated by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.Shankar composed the dance drama Ghanashyam in 1989.His liberal views on musical co-operation led him to contemporary composer Philip Glass, with whom he released an album, Passages, in 1990,in a project initiated by Peter Baumann of the band Tangerine Dream. Because of the positive response to Shankar's 1996 career compilation In Celebration, Shankar wrote a second autobiography, Raga Mala. He performed between 25 and 40 concerts every year during the late 1990s. Shankar taught his daughter Anoushka Shankar to play sitar and in 1997 became a Regents' Professor at University of California, San Diego. He performed with Anoushka for the BBC in 1997 at the Symphony Hall in Birmingham, England