An extraordinary experiment in rousical realism has lately been made the Queen's Hall in London which demanded was over. In general effect, the performance appears to have been always confusing except where it was ridiculous. May one not be tempted to say, "So perish all who do the like again Without Isbouring the long controversy between "absolute music" ad "programme anusio™ it in safe to that in the latter kind the point soon reached at which explansjon, so far from doing music a service, inflicts on her " degradation for in so far as music requires the assistance of another art to make herself understood she has surely lost that naniversality of appeal which is her great glory. This principle the newest composers appear to have overlooked. The chief point of satisfaction io the recent essay in illuminated music is that it reveals British concert managers in the new light of willingness to make costly experiments for native composers. Still may be hoped that they will not make an experiment of this precise nature again. toward something more serious in the way of disorder. But, as usual, the foreigner lifts up his warning voice in vain.
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