With Delius and the second half the audience's receptive faculties had to be entirely readjusted. The music was now full of depth and of impressionistic imagery, Whereas the musical form of the classical masters gives countless opportunities of rallying points for the listener, Delius and the moderns demand a complete concentration and subjection of the consciousness to the spirit of the music, "The Walk to the Paradise Garden" is a lovely work that ever grows with familiarity and with the familiarity of the orchestra to it. It maintains an intensity of emotion that is almost exhausting, The same was true of the Roger-Ducasse although I found this work too long for its content, The Tommasini and the Debussy were more full-blooded. The tomer seemed almost a musical joke in some of its effects, But in all four works, although they were overscored, the orchestra gave a sound performance, For myself, I found it significant that in the programme the old composers are called "masters" whereas the modern are only "com-
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