1919] on Hubert Hastings Parr7 549 



narrow, but in its most liberal sense — as a foremost " Nationalist " 

 in music. 



I have tried to show what Parry actually did achieve — a mag- 

 nificent record — and refrained from speculating upon "probabilities" 

 and " possibilities " ; because I cannot bring myself to think that 

 the sacrifices of time and energy he chose to make are all to be 

 accounted as losses to Art. 



Parry had the power of radiation, of inspiring enthusiasm in 

 others, and delighted in exercising it. And it is something to have 

 had such a man personally touching at least a couple of generations 

 of young musicians on the shoulders in the great school of music he 

 loved so much. 



Sufficient to know that he leaves us with no regretful sense of an 

 unfinished life-labour. With William Watson we may say : 



" No record Art keeps of her travail or throes. 

 On the steeps there is toil, on the summit repose." 



In his last utterances you will perceive a calming-down of the 

 characteristic impetuosity ; a mellow serenity, approaching almost to 

 resignation ; but never a pessimistic, dissatisfied note, " jarring 

 against Nature's chime." On the contrary, the hopeful, courageously 

 cheerful, open-air man, by instinct and breeding, is speaking to us 

 and to our successors through his music all the time. 



[A. C. M.] 



[Musical illustrations were furnished by Miss Agnes Nicholls, 

 Mr. Hamilton Harty, Mr. Arthur L. Sandford, and a number of 

 Students from the Koyal Academy of Music] 



