Long popular among the connoisseurs of Indian music, Ravi Shankar first impressed western listeners with his phenomenal technical virtuosity, but they soon came to appreciate his music as an artful expression of an older culture’s musical insight.

A

but it soon occurred that they appreciated his artful music as an

B

but they soon came to appreciate his music as an artful

C

but soon this was surpassed by an appreciation of it as an artful

D

which was soon surpassed by an even deeper appreciation of it as an artful