In 1965, whilst studying with Boulanger in Paris, Phillip Glass met Ravi Shankar. To make extra money, Glass was taking any session work he could find and Shankar was in town looking for a small group of musicians to help him record a soundtrack for a film entitled Chappaqua. Glass took the job as transcriber and arranger fo the Western instruments used in the soundtrack. Utterly transformed by the experience, Glass continues to cite the meeting with Shankar and Alla Rakha as one of the formative influences on his subsequent musical direction.
Ravi Shankar had long been friends with the writer-director of Chappaqua, Conrad Rooks, who also starred in the film and based the story on his own life experiences. Jazz modernist Ornette Coleman was originally approached to compose the score, but Rooks changed his mind and felt that Shankar's music would better complement the halucinatory scenes in the film that pertained to India and meditation. Shankar was less than thrilled with the drug connotations of the film, but agreed to compose the score.
The opening title track, Chappaqua contains the main theme composed for the film, beginning with a quick flourish of sitar and tabla, followed by strings and woodwinds playing the Shankar melody. The rhythms are complex, with brief jawab-sawal dialogues between the orchestra and the Indian instruments and it is obvious that Glass was challenged with this piece.

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