Had flu on Monday, and had to experience the squalid distress of remaining at home and trying to work hard and play hard but doing neither. Have plunged headlong into my exam. work for music. Last year’s papers are very tough, but when the practical and oral exam. is over in March, I will give up piano altogether and grind at harmony, counterpoint and history. This evening we went to ‘Othello’ performed by Fr. O’Flynn’s company in the Michael [Collins] Barracks. We got a special invitation from Col. Lynch. Lieutenant Duff, bandmaster to the Army Band, conducted some pieces of Coleridge-Taylor’s very finely. The play itself, though an amateur performance, and a cast drawn from very rough material, was excellent, Iago and Amelia being especially good. At all events, it was an education for me. Poor Father O’Flynn is certainly doing good, though wayward, work for Shakespeare.
