Chamber music has been called "the music of friends." Even when, as last Sunday, performers and audience are separated by the pros-conium arch, the informal spirit of intimacy and friendship is still present. The full orchestra is a formidable body of which the audience stand somewhat in awe. But chamber music is a different matter with the listener in much closer contact to the delicate fibre of the music. It may be for reasons of this kind that the Lyceum was almost full and that the behaviour of the audience was exemplary.
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