quite as warmly appreciated by village audiences as 

 any trumpery could have been. He was more fond of 

 orchestral than of solo music, and in the later 'eighties 

 and afterwards he was a conspicuous figure in the Dorset 

 Orchestral Association, which did excellent work in the 

 practice and public performance of the best music at 

 Dorchester and Weymouth, under the conductorship of 

 Mr. William Stone. Many of the symphonies and over- 

 tures of Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert were 

 successfully given by this energetic body, and until 1905", 

 when old age obliged him to give up regular playing, my 

 father usually led the second violins; members of the 

 Association used also to come to Bloxworth and help in 

 concerts there the wind-parts being mostly taken on 

 the harmonium by my youngest brother. He took part 

 whenever he could in the choral festivals held in the 

 churches of Dorchester and Weymouth, and in the con- 

 certs of the Weymouth College Musical Society so long 

 as any of his sons were pupils at that school ; and on 

 several occasions he and one or more of his sons played 

 in the orchestra at the choral festivals in Salisbury Cathe- 

 dral, to which the village choir was also taken whenever 

 it was possible. He himself wrote several good Anglican 

 chants and one or two hymn-tunes. Once only, so far 

 as I can remember, he varied music with drama. In 

 1885- some ambitious spirits at Bere Regis gave a per- 

 formance of The Rivals, in which my father took the 

 part of Sir Anthony Absolute with great effect. In all 

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