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Show British Music. "The English are not very musical," Walter Damrosch admitted at a dinner din-ner in New York. "The English are a little too cold, too self-conscious, to produce a Chopin or a Rimsky-Korsa-kov. "Robert Louis Stevenson once went to hear Charles Halle play the plr.no at the Queen's hall. After the performance per-formance Stevenson in his black shirt ; walked in silence out Regent street to Oxford Circus. He stopped at Oxford Ox-ford Circus and, ln a slow, meditative I voice, pronounced this excellent criticism criti-cism on the English musician he had heard: " 'The manner of the elderly statesman states-man at the piano was somewhat austere aus-tere and chilling." |