Show FINALLY STRIKES A CHORD theres often some sort of compensation for struggles of amateur orchestra sometimes of a witching night when 0 wo o oil all tire are keyed for the music and outside behave in normal fashion fas lilon there comes an expert once worth all the years of scratchy scales that went before says a writer in the atlantic monthly we are in tho the midst of the iho larghetto lit in the second symphony perhaps I 1 am not conducting neither Is endicott Endl cott perhaps prefers to conduct tho the larghetto himself and then suddenly as aa one sometimes on a journey becomes vividly aware of 0 a breeze and blue distance and firm hills beneath ills feet I 1 really hear the chord that we are arc pi dyIng it Is no longer a meas urea flow of mingled sound but distinct exquisite richly personal to me tharo Is tho the queer little rush husli of tho the accent that comes front from the first violin when margaret Is really stirred etl tho the cellos full response vibrant but soft with hidden masses of covered tone I 1 can feel my luy own little second tind fiddle quivering banca y bow thero there Is 1 some curious connecting of alio spirit in the playing of a chord again and again we find it probably these moments aro are what we live for varied though our programs always are arc |