The love relationship between the West and the sitar began with George Harrison's sincere desire to learn the rudiments of this complex stringed instrument under Ravi Shankar. He recorded its sound in "Norwegian Wood" and other songs. Later—at Woodstock— Ravi Shankar mesmerized already stoned-out audiences...
It has been inaccurately said that Odilon Redon (1840 –1916) was merely "a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist." Yet Redon was more fittingly called by deeper appreciators of his work, "the prince of dreams." He described his own art in this way: "My drawings inspire, and...
The layers of the unconscious are numerous and its ocean vast. Just beneath surface consciousness lies our unexpressed emotions, the bubbling spring of our dreams and the subterranean—as well as ethereal— worlds behind the veils of art, music, poetry, and every possible and manifested creative...
Few —if any of us— have wandered a life time without a hearth or home save the heart. Several of us may have spent years wandering the deserts, mountains and forests to find our origins. Others of us may have spent months searching for ourselves...
"She didn't have any type of barrier or any type of fear that limited her", said Fabian Matus, the surviving son of his mother, Mercedes Sosa. To her native Argentinians, Sosa was a symbol of freedom from dictatorship—or for that matter—any government that would impose...
When he was offered the lead-vocalist slot for Led Zeppelin in 1968, Terry Reid had already decided to tour with Cream. So the Songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist suggested to Jimmy Page that he meet Robert Plant . . . and the rest is . . ....