music dies in Kashmir

“It is said that music is born in bengal, grows up in Outh, grows old in the Panjab and dies in Kashmir…”
~ Ananda Coomaraswamy

Shalimar Gardens.
William Simpson. 1823. About the performance he wrote,it was “the sweet delusion of a never to be forgotten night.”
Newsclip about Ratan Devi’s performance in New York
Vassar Miscellany News, Volume X, Number 18, 25 November 1925
Interesting note by Willain Buttler Yearts.

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Finally tracked down Kashmiri songs documented by the couple in 1911.
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