Arthur Strangways
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Arthur Henry Fox Strangways (1859–1948) was a music critic who wrote for The Observer.
[edit] Rabindrasangeet
Strangeways first introduced non-Bengalis to rabindrasangeet with his book The Music of Hindostan, which described it as a "vehicle of a personality ... [that] go behind this or that system of music to that beauty of sound which all systems put out their hands to seize."[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Dutta & Robinson 1995, p. 359.