Music: Geneva Fest

Like most impromptus, an international exposition of music which opened and held forth in Geneva, Switzerland, last fortnight without the elaborate preliminaries that usually precede international events, was hailed across Europe as something which must be often repeated, whatever it may next time lack of spontaneity.

Germans and Frenchmen were prime movers in filling a hall with the music manufactures of their countries—16 makes of German pianos, organs, sounding brass and a wide variety of intricate woodwork for translating still air into meaningful reverberations; 19 German and...

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