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At a music festival in California in June 1967, a middle-aged sitar player watched Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire. The crowd cheered. Ravi Shankar was horrified. Born in 1920 in Benares, a holy Indian city now called Varanasi, Mr. Shankar came from an affluent and artistic family.
Mr. Shankar gained acclaim in India as both a performer and a composer—he wrote scores for Satyajit Ray, a fellow Bengali who is still regarded as one of the country’s best film-makers. He started teaching American jazz musicians such as John Coltrane and Don Ellis, and also recorded albums with Yehudi Menuhin, an American violinist, and Philip Glass, one of the 20th century’s most influential composers. But he is perhaps best known for his influence on the Beatles—Harrison, the band’s lead guitarist, was so taken with Mr. Shankar that he went to India to have sitar lessons with him.
Music was also the spine of his personal life. His first wife was Annapurna Devi, his guru’s daughter and a gifted sitarist. A 2005 biography of Ms. Devi states that her husband made her vow not to perform in public so that she would not overshadow him. In the late 1940s, Mr. Shankar began a long relationship with Kamala Shastri, a dancer. He then met Sue Jones, a concert producer with whom he had a daughter in 1979, Norah Jones, a singer who has won nine Grammy awards. In 1989, he married Sukanya Rajan. Their daughter, Anoushka Shankar, is a sitarist who performed regularly with her father over the last decade.
On paper, Mr. Shankar was a perfect guru for the long-haired, incense-burning hippies. But, in later years, he admitted he was not entirely comfortable at the hedonistic (快乐主义的) California festivals of the 1960s, such as Monterey Festival and Woodstock. The drugs, mayhem (骚乱) and short-lived fads for one kind of music or another unsettled him. He thought Jimi Hendrix’s flaming guitar was the "greatest sacrilege (渎圣行为) possible". However, he continued his pop music collaborations, even though some musicians in India, perhaps envious, criticised him for working with Western pop stars. A week before his death, he was told that he would receive a lifetime achievement award at next year’s Grammy ceremony in February. [br] What artistic achievements did Shankar achieve?
选项
A、He was one of the best film-makers in India.
B、He created plays for famous film-makers.
C、He made records with other musicians.
D、He composed songs for the Beatles.
答案
C
解析
由题干中的artistic achievements定位到第二段第二句。细节辨认题。由定位句可知,香卡开始为美国爵士音乐家教学,如约翰.克特兰,还同美国小提琴家耶胡迪.梅纽因以及20世纪最有影响力的作曲家之一菲利普.格拉斯录制过唱片。故C)为正确答案。
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