Letter to Aurthur Clough
1894-01-29

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Burton: Lea School Jan 29/94
10, South Street
Park Lane. W.
My dear Arthur I venture
to send you another flag of
Burton's which I have
answered with enthusiasm
At the same time I cannot
think his Programme very
wise - There are lovely
operettas for children's
performances with a
better moral than small
feet & marriage with a Prince
And could we not
have had one or two pieces
of good music in all that
trash. I have told him
how even in my day the
Street & Park bands have
miserably deteriorated in
music. We used to have
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Mozart's 12th Mass, Beethoven's
Adelaida, Rossini's Stabat
Mater etc. played in the streets.
And I have been guilty of
giving them gold. And on
Xmas Eve a man with a
trumpet came straight from
heaven at midnight to
perform the Angels' song.
Now the Park bands' execution
is excellent but the music
detestably frivolous. And the
"Waits" a horrid squeak.
Still Burton is a hero to
'go'. And I hope you
encourage him. Was he
absent when you & your
lady were so good as to
go to Lea Hurst?
I hope to see her
some day. ever yours F.N.