A recognition of such actuating facts behind the music itself is most necessary for appreciation and appraisal, To demand an emotional depth in functional music is as absurd as to castigate Delius or Tommasini for lack of form, The old masters and the modern composers wrote and thought in entirely different mediums. All we can do is to attempt to understand the motives behind both schools and to base our judgment on fact and not on a blind preference, Respigh!'s arrangements of old lute music are possibly his greatest legacy to posterity, In them he reveals a perfect taste as well as a thorough understanding of chamber orchestra. They are a model of restraint and of elegance and but for Respighi would be unknown, Maestro Paci had certainly given them more attention in rehearsal than either the Gluck or Haydn, There seems to be an erroneous belief that Mozart Haydn and the 18th century composers are easy to play with the result that the Municipal Orchestra succeeds with the really difficult passages that they have practised but falls down in the simpler parts where they have not, This was particularly noticeable in the finale of the Haydn. The overture to "Alceste" was taken too slowly and with not enough delicacy, The music is most suggestive of Gothic tracery and must be treated with a light touch as well as with Perfect ce-ordination, The bustle and gaiety of the "Clock" Symphony on the other hand was much more within their grasp and except for evidence of insufficient rehearsal, was well played,
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