MUSIC NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1446, 10 January 1918, Page 34

MUSIC NOTES.

(By

“G” String.)

One of the world’s most famous string quartettes is that known as th© “Flonzaley” of America, and a recent change in the personnel seems to have brought a famous viola player to New York. The new arrival is Louis Bailly, who has been released from h s war duties as secretary to the French Minister of War to replace for one season only Ugo Ara, a viola player of note, who has left. America to fight for Italy. Louis Bailly, who graduated at the Paris Conservatorium in 1899, has acted as soloist at the Colonne Concerts and as a member of the Paris Opera Comique orchestra, but latterly he has devoted his energies to chamber music, and has toured France, Germany, England and Italy with the Quatour Capet, wh ch afterwards gave a series of Red Cross concerts on the side of the Allies. Mr. Bailly, in referring to the effect of the war upon musical events, says that during the first year all music stopped, but that it had been coming steadily to the fore again through various organisations founded to rel'eve suffering, and for other patriotic purposes. The Flonzaley Quartette opened their present season in New York on November 27, when they introduced an original number by Daniel Gregory Mason, an American composer who is rapidly coming to the front. They were afterwards due to play seasons in Boston, Chicago and the other principal c ties of the States. The other three members of the quartette are M. Pochon, M. Betti and M. Darchambeau.

The following story is vouched for as authentic by a London da ly. The principal of a local college In Wales was to present the prizes at a school, and on the appointed day he, with the Mayor and Corporation, walked in procession to the room where the children were gathered. As the procession reached the door, the children, at a given signal, rose and sang, “See the hosts of sin advanc’ng, Satan leading on!” it is stated that the teacher had a very warm five minutes afterwards.