The Music of Hindostan c8.s3.17

c8.s3.17

The singing that appealed to me most was that of Chandra Prabhu at Bhavnagav. She compelled respect at once by refusing on any account to be phonographed; perhaps she thought, amongst other things, that if she committed her soul to a mere piece of wax it might get broken in the train—and my subsequent experience showed that this was only too likely. She sang for an hour, three songs. The most striking of them was in ‘a sort of’ Bhairavī, upon a theme of the Maharajah’s: