WHAT BOYS WHISTLE
GIRTON GIRL’S QUESTION. Dr. Percy Buck, King Edward Professor of Music at London University, speaking at the Oxford course in music-teaching recently on the improvement recently in musical knowledge, said: “Recently my wife was walking down a side street off High-street, Kensington, and in the course of 100 yards passed three messenger boys. The first was whistling the opening bars of the Tannhauser overture, the second was singing the song ‘Where o’er You Walk,’ while the third was whistling the second subject of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony. “But that story had a depressing sequel. A little time afterwards 1 sat at dinner next to a young lady who had been educated at Girton and one of the big public schools. told her the story, and said, ‘What, is the Unfinished Symphony?’ ”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 September 1934, Page 9
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