MMMF: Classical music in Mumbai has a savior

Round Kemps Corner is a building called Banoo Mansions, home to the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation (MMMF). In its two apartments there's the sound of music in one form or another. Violin strings being tuned, the stop and start of piano keys as a piece of music is mastered and young voices are trained to hit the right notes. Mumbai has a dearth of courses or structured classes on Western classical music. So far that's been the domain of private one-on-one lessons mainly within the Catholic and Parsi communities, which makes the MMMF's small, but growing, contribution to creating interest in Western classical music all the more significant.

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