At the end of the description he expressed his astonishment that this ancient music was still being performed and had never yet been recorded commercially. He also expressed his fear that with the encroachment of European popular music Morocco’s time-honoured traditions would disappear. In the meantime, Glanville-Hicks was pursuing an interest in non-Western music and forging a mutually useful relationship with John Marshall and Chadbourne Gilpatric, staffers at the Rockefeller Foundation, an organisation that she knew offered funding for ethnomusicological projects. In 1956 Glanville-Hicks was pressing the Foundation to fund a visit to the US of the Indian musician and music administrator Narayana Menon.