Sitting in his Bandra home, 91-year-old Homi Dastoor recounts a childhood memory, as the camera zooms in on his radiant smile and glinting eyes. When he was eight, Dastoor's mother got a tailor to stitch six pairs of shorts that fell two inches below his knees. Embarrassed to go out and play in them, Dastoor began reading every single book on Western Classical music that he could lay his hands on. “That's how it started,” smiles Dastoor, who spent hours in libraries, attended every live concert Mumbai would host and penned meticulous notes on maestros, which finally became the manuscript for his first book, Musical Journeys: A Personal Introduction To Western Classical Composers. This, he published at the age of 89.

Homi Dastoor with a DVD of a Beethoven symphony orchestra in a still from The Ninety First Symphony — The Musical Journey of Homi Dastoor