MUSICIANS AND COMPOSERS.
COSTA AND STERNDALE BENNETT.
—How They Loved One Another. — Musicians have the knack of discords. Though it is thirty-three years since Sterndale Bennett's death, his famous quarrel with Sir Michael Costa lives in the pages of his Life. Costa was to conduct an overture by Bennett, who, after hearing a rehearsal, sent a message through their mutual friend, Charles Lucas, to ask Costa to take the music a little faster. "I have not been able to explain my idea of the timoj to him, but jou have done it often, and I am sure he will not take it amiss," said the man of harmonies. Ccsta did take it amiss, refused to conduct the overture at all, and declared the many years' war. In the International Exhibition of 1862, when Bennett's composition was set down to represent England, with Verdi's for Italy, Auber's for France, and Meyerbeer's for Germany, Costa, elected conductor, stipulated that he should not have Lo chiect the English composition, and Sainton had to be called in for that particular "number" on the programme. — Sketch.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2817, 4 March 1908, Page 77
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181MUSICIANS AND COMPOSERS. COSTA AND STERNDALE BENNETT. Otago Witness, Issue 2817, 4 March 1908, Page 77
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