Viscount Hidemaro Konoye's visit to Shanghai has given Intense pleasure music-lovers who have had the privilege of attending concerts under his conductorship. He himself has enjoyed the experience as will be gathered from the charmingly graceful etter of thanks which he Wrote on the point of departure. A member of a distinguished Japanese. family and of the House of Peers, the Vis cour is a most necomplished. musi-clan. He Is well-known a3 a composer and conductor of western muse, studied in Germany and has acted as "guest conductor" of some of the leading symphony orchestras In. that country. His conducting and person: ality alike made a most pleasing im-Pression on those "who came. into contact with him here. He brought vivid evidence of the remarkable progress in creative art which 1s euch a feature of modern Japan, As one musical critic of eminence In Shanghai has put it, his work wae "a revela
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