Letter
Hilda Collens
Northern School Of Music (NSM)
1950

Hilda Collens here relaying an opinion that Hubert Harry should have won first prize at the Geneva Festival that year.

She shares a story Clifford Curzon told her about Alfred Dennis Cortot: he was playing a performance in London and the great and good were in attendance. After, a chap was heard to say outside how many wrong notes Cortot played, the reply to which was "Does it ever occur to you that many of us would sooner hear Cortot play wrong notes than hear you play right ones?"

Burn!

Ref: HH/1/35

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