Video: Explore Indian music beyond ‘Slumdog’ with Paul Livingstone
Ready to expand your knowledge of Indian music beyond the soundtrack to "Slumdog Millionaire"? Here's a little help from our video team, who spent some time with local Paul Livingstone.
Born in Beirut and living in Los Angeles, Livingstone has studied North Indian classical music for the last 20 years, working with such known practitioners of the form as Pandit Ravi Shankar, Rajeev Taranath and Amiya Dasgupta.
He's done some film work as well, composing for 2005's "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World" with Michael Giacchino. He talks about the art of the sitar and the relevance of world music to Los Angeles in the above clip. You can check all his upcoming performances here.
-- Todd Martens
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