HOUSTON, TEXAS, June 11, 2001: For over twenty years, Houston-based internationally acclaimed musical duo Chandrakantha and David Courtney have charmed audiences with their performances of Hindustani classical music and bhajanas. Like thousands of others all over the Houston, they too experienced the wrath of Tropical Storm Allison last week. In the aftermath of the floods that all but devastated their quaint little home in the West University area, the couple are asking the community to help them salvage treasured music notes ravaged by water. They earnestly request volunteers who know how to read and write the Hindi and Telugu languages come forward to assist them in transcribing priceless music manuscripts.
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