Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar Dies

In this July 2, 2005 photograph, Ravi Shankar welcomes the audience during his concert at the Vienna State Opera House.

In this August 3, 1967 file photo, George Harrison, of the Beatles, left, sits with Ravi Shankar in Los Angeles, California as Harrison explains to newsmen that Shankar is teaching him to play the sitar.

In this 1967 file photo, Ravi Shankar plays his sitar in Los Angeles, California.

Indian musician and sitar maestro Ravi Shankar at a performance with his daughter Anoushka Shankar, Bangalore, India, February 7, 2012.

Indian students light candles to pay tribute to Ravi Shankar in Varanasi, where he was born in India, December 12, 2012.

Indian students light candles to pay tribute to Ravi Shankar at the Bengali Tola Inter College where Shankar had studied in Varanasi, India, December 12, 2012.