A Bombay Symphony

India is falling in love with Western classical music. In his home-city Mumbai, Zareer Masani encounters the country’s first national ensemble, the Symphony Orchestra of India. He visits Furtado’s, the city’s oldest music shop, which sells hundreds of …

India is falling in love with Western classical music. In his home-city Mumbai, Zareer Masani encounters the country's first national ensemble, the Symphony Orchestra of India. He visits Furtado's, the city's oldest music shop, which sells hundreds of pianos a year, and discovers that thousands of children learn a Western instrument. Yet, Zareer finds that this is not the total success it seems.

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