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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Cosmos: Shani Diluka, piano, with Mehboob Nadeen, sitar and Mitel Purihot, tablas

February 23, 2020
15 Avenue Montaigne, 75008 Paris, France

The evidence for an interest in Indian music on Beethoven’s part doesn’t amount to a hill of beans, but never mind. Between her renditions of his dreamiest sonata, the “Moonlight,” and of one of his wildest, the “Appassionata,” the French pianist Shani Diluka joins forces with a sitar and tablas for a jam session they’re calling “Moonlight Raga.” —M.G.