Intoxicating Music
Dr. Edgar Bainton, late director of the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music, who is now on a visit to the Dominion, may always be relied upon for an apt and amusing anecdote whenever he speaks at a gathering. When giving an informal talk to members of the Society of Musicians, he told the story of the gild in Aucklan who after hearing Lili Kraus play here wrote to her people in Wellington to say that she had been intoxicated by the noted Hungarian pianist’s playing. Her father read out his daughter’s letter at a committee meeting, he was attending but just as he got to the word “intoxicated” he was called away to the telephone. “Whei’e had I got to when I left?” he asked when he returned. The chairman replied, “You left off just when you said that your daughter was drunk.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 15, 23 August 1946, Page 7
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146Intoxicating Music Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 15, 23 August 1946, Page 7
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