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• Eminent in the musical life of Rome,

and Director of Santa Cecilia, was Ottorino Respighi. [[crossed out: whose years in Russia gave him, for me, a special attraction as a person]] This is not to say that crossed out: he Respighi was either understood or appreciated ^in Italy for he was neither. I do not remember just when "The Pines" was first played but in 1926 nobody tired of castigating crossed out: him the composer for his use of a recording of the ^real nightingale's song. Respighi was crossed out skilful good as a master of orchestral color, and the results were often crossed out: very ^rather nice, people said but it wasn't really music: and he had to take his themes from Gregorian chants because he couldn't think up any of his own. And the gallery booed and whistled vigorously when music by Respighi was played.

  He died a number of years ago and now

his nightingale sings from all the concert platforms of the occident even in Rome, without