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dated January 19, 1959: Western and Indian music

Dr. (Miss) Renshaw, a Canadian musicologist, speaking under the auspices of the Madras State Sangita Nataka Sangham in Madras on January 17, traced the evolution of the Western music and wanted that the family resemblance between the Indian and Western music should be perceived by more people. Dr. Renshaw felt that there should be an international centre in India where Indian people could go and listen to the highest level of classical Western music. She added that this would be one of her recommendations to the UNESCO, which along with the Government of India, had sponsored her one-year tour of India to survey Indian music for making a comparative study of Indian and Western music.

Prof. P. Sambamurthi, who presided, likened Indian music to a temple with delicate carvings and Western music to a multi-storeyed skyscraper, while harmony was the gift of European music to world art, the raga system was the Indian gift.

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