Fr. Pat came to-day. Mám played for him and Dr. Frend after tea. It was magnificent. Indeed, there is no doubt that she excels all such pianists as Cortot and -Hummel who score merely by getting names, yet ‘many a flower was born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air’. And Mám had her day of recognition in Bavaria too, when she was presented to the King, and, please God, she will yet become better known, even in this ‘musical’ city. I would have loved to listen to the whole programme, but had to dash to the Choral practice. They have decided now to produce Gluck’s ‘Mai Königin’, but the attendance was only a bit better than usual. They must buck up if it is to be a success.
