ABSTRACT
Music during May and June means a sea of recitals at the rate of about forty or fifty a week. No single individual could hope to cope with them even if he wished to. As a matter of fact they are all much of a muchness. The same things are done over and over again, particularly by the pianists. I am left wondering whether Beethoven wrote anything besides the Waldstein Sonata or Brahms anything except the Sonata in F minor. Occasionally a singer like Elena Gerhardt or Julia Hostater appears, and makes you feel that recitals are sometimes justified ; or a pianist like Petri or Pachmann. But the general run of concerts, as I have said, is monotonous at this time of year.
