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• Eminent in the musical life of Rome,

and Director of Santa Cecilia, was Ottorine Raspighi. This is not to say that [??] was either understood or appreciated in Italy for he was neither. I do not remember just when "The Pikes" was first played but in 1926 nobody tired of castigating the company for his use of recording of the real nightingales song. Raspighi was a master of orchestral color, and the results were often rather nice, people said but it wasn't healthy 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. We died a number of years ago and now his nightingale sings from all the concert platforms of the accident even in Rome, without