After Victor Paranjoti left to form the Bombay Light Opera Sabha, and the BMSO was being run by committee members led by conductor-tenor Cesar Coelho.
The orchestra was collected ad hoc and was often formed of Bollywood musicians, which, Havaldar explained, was problematic as they would need to be coaxed away from the lure of paid employment in the film studios.
In the 1950s and 1960s, according to Alfred J. Braganza, the Bombay Madrigal Singers, under the baton of Victor Paranjoti, "performed with success Konkani songs collected and arranged by Prof. Lucio Rodrigues in some of the premier cities of Europe.
[2] It has been credited with bringing in "artistes and orchestras of the best calibre coming here, courtesy the Bombay Madrigal Singers Organisation (BMSO)"—including Karajan, Rubinstein, Kempff, Oistrakh, Ruggiero Ricci, the Bolshoi Ballet, Vienna Boys' Choir.
[2] Marsdem comments: As I discussed the history of Western classical music with informants, friends and acquaintances in Mumbai, two names kept recurring: the Time and Talents Club and the Bombay Madrigal Singers Organisation, most commonly referred to by its acronym BMSO.