The Archive · 1940

Himself Fine Pianist

The very much heralded concert of Maestro Paci, and his three young pupils turned out to be as delightful for everyone as was expected. The Herring Ribbon Fish Whitebait Salmon

Pouutry, GAME, Ecos Chicken 1b. Duck each Eggs doz. bouquet the critic has to offer is nothing more tangible (or acceptable) than a string of words.

Apples (Far East) Ib, It must be rare io come across} Bananas people who are as adept at living, Lemons each not a double but a triple life, as does Oranges (Mand.) 1b. Oranges (Imported) Signor Paci. After the concert on Pears (Far East) Wednesday, it will have dawned upon a great many who knew him only as the conductor of the Municipal Bamboo Shoots 1b. Orchestra, that he is a pianist of great Beans (French) merit, and that he also possesses Beetroot highly-developed professorial quali- Cabbage (Fresh) ties in the ability to- implant into Carrots others, the knowledge and funded ex- Onions (Ordinary) perience of his own art.

Potatoes (Ordinary)

Unfortunately, the critic was un- Bomae Swee) able to stay at the concert after the Tomatoes interval, and so did not hear the con- Turnips cortes for two and three pianos by Mozart and Bach, respectively. He thus did not hear the playing of Miss Rosa Schiffmann, for which apologies are due. There is little doubt, however, that as she has emerged from the same solid school of pianism as the two other young ladies, her playing was just as competent and pleasing.

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