He lived a full and beautiful life.
Ravi Shankar dies at 92
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#42Is every famous musician death going to make it to the top of Hacker News from now on?
Evidently not--Galina Vishnevskaya didn't make it today.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, if the community around HN loves and has a certain respect to it. I'll ask myself the same question. Is every nonsense comment going to make it to the top of a topic that people care from now on?
You think my question is nonsense? How would you feel if you saw a post about Erlang or Clojure on a site called "Music News?" Especially if you had been on the site for years, when it was actually about music news? FYI I play several instruments and I love(d) Ravi Shankar. However, this site is Hacker News. There is a limit.
How would you feel if you saw a post about Erlang or Clojure on a site called "Music News?"
I probably wouldn't be such a cry-baby asshole complainer about it.
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#44Is every famous musician death going to make it to the top of Hacker News from now on?
If it's interesting to the community of hackers who hang out here, then yes it should hit the front page.
Don't worry, in 10 years you'll have forgotten all about this.
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#45Is every famous musician death going to make it to the top of Hacker News from now on?
If you don't think a post should be on HN, hit the flag button and a mod will look at it. HN is as good as you want it to be after all.
Flagging actually also works as a massive downgrade of votes. Get a couple of people to flag an article and it will go down 10 places on the front page. So don't use flagging just to "bring it to someone's attention". It's far more powerful, and should be used judiciously...
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
You think my question is nonsense? How would you feel if you saw a post about Erlang or Clojure on a site called "Music News?" Especially if you had been on the site for years, when it was actually about music news? FYI I play several instruments and I love(d) Ravi Shankar. However, this site is Hacker News. There is a limit.
How would you feel if you saw a post about Erlang or Clojure on a site called "Music News?" I probably wouldn't be such a cry-baby asshole complainer about it.
Wow, easy there tiger! Diego has a valid point, and while you may disagree with him, personal insults such as this are futile and very unbecoming of an HNer. Please do keep it civil and understand that HN is an open arena for discussions and dissenting viewpoints, that's what makes it interesting and different.
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It's not considered a particularly honorable way of making money in the west either. We're just less concerned about honor.
I don't know if honor even enters into it, it's just not considered a particularly effective way of making money.
You're right, honor doesn't factor into it in the U.S. But it sounds like in India, musicians don't busk because they are afraid of being perceived as beggars. Which is unfortunate.
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#48This is scary, Dave Brubeck passed away the other day and now Ravi Shankar (both pioneers in their own respectively different genres). We've lost quite a few musicians and prolific figures this year, a sign that I'm getting old myself. Living to the age of 90+ is quite an achievement in itself if you ask me.
how can Ravi Shanker that lived in this age be a pioneer of classical indian music genre? He was a pioneer in taking the genre to the west, yes, but not a pioneer of the genre itself. Rest in Peace.
He was a pioneer in the sense that he extended the classical Indian music genre in many ways (i.e. through innovative compositions and film scores that added many non-traditional elements)
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Pandit Ravi Shankar was just one of those masters from Indian subcontinent who happened to get famous and so comes to attention. Back here in India, such people are quite common[Not to say they are all over the place, but you just don't hear about many of them]. Most of them just don't come up because of lack of encouragement, and proper ways of monetizing their art. Just to tell you. Back in the past when I was in s…
I think this is exaggerated on many levels. 1. There are dozens of famous and wealthy Indian classical musicians - Hariprasad Chaurasia, Zakir Hussain, Amjad Ali Khan, etc. There are hundreds if not thousands of lesser known musicians who make a living by teaching and performing in small venues. 2. Of course, many talented people are prevented by social custom or poverty from following their dream, but its simply not…
I never said Ravi Shankar was 'just' lucky, did I?
But frankly this is survivor ship bias at its very best. Looking at it from my very own parents stand point. What are the odds that somebody like me was going to be the next Zakir Hussain[Who himself happens to be the son of a very famous Tabla player]?
So there you see the problem. If there isn't a way to make good money doing music. People are not going to be taking it up as a full time profession.
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#50huh, norah jones' dad. who knew?
Apparently she is bitterish about her father since he left them. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...
Seems like she got over it: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwDRbCiFEsPI5A0Z6JE7_g...
Here are some great clips of my Dad playing the Sitar for anyone who never saw him perform live.
He's 51 in the first clip and 92 in the second clip and an inspiration in both. I love you and miss you, Pops.