A brief state of the contests that have lately arisen in the Salisbury concert / By a subscriber.

Date:
1781
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Credit: A brief state of the contests that have lately arisen in the Salisbury concert / By a subscriber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3° ] bility that this could ever be the cafe, from the accommodation propofed. If Mr. Corfe had di¬ vided the direftipn of the Concert with Mr. Parry, according to Mr. Parry’s propofal, he would have been efteftually fecured againft any future conteft with him j Mr. Parry would have regarded this agreement as equally binding with any other agree¬ ment on any other concern ; and having agreed to fluare the diredlion of the Concert with Mr. Corfe, he would have had no inclination for any thing further, for he would then have had all he defired, as he repeatedly declared; nor could he, in honor^ after having volvintarily propofed to jhare the Di RECTioN, pretend to alk for, or even accept the foie conduct of the Concert. I hope I need fay no' more on this point. It was particularly objedted, (I remember) by Mr. Corfe’s party, that it was abfurd to have two Musical Monarchs (as they called them) and that they would be, from the nature of the plan, eternally difagreeing. I liftened carefully to this objection, when it was firft mentioned to me; but upon enquiring parti¬ cularly the opinion of fome Ikilful muficians about the plan, they alTured me, over and over, that there was no reafon -to appprehend any fuch thing, ^ud that two profeffors of mufic might very well con¬ duct a Concert jointly, if they pleafed: that there was nothing impradlicable or difficult in the thing to be done,' if there was no unwillingnefs in thofe who were to do it. All objedlions of this kind came from one fide, and Mr. Parhy faw nq difficulty in the matter. They ; talk incelTantly about this difficulty, as if it really cxifted in the nature of thingswhereas in fadl it is a difficulty of their pvyn m^^king, and proceeded front nothing y
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