Behind the Suit – While her sitar gently weeps

Every parent who's raised kids in the last half-century must have at some point braced themselves for the day when their preteens would ask for a drum kit or an electric guitar. So you can imagine how surprised PBS senior director of children's programming Linda Simensky's folks must have been when their middle-grade daughter - a huge fan of The Beatles and particularly the song 'Norwegian Wood' - expressed her desire to take up the sitar. They said no at the time, but destiny stepped in a few years later, and Simensky has been plucking away ever since.
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April 1, 2007

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