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If my health & money holds out I hope to give some day in Australia concerts of large chamber music in which the more expressive & complicated music of our times & races (or at least that part of it that I admire) can be presented in a feelingful & soul-searching way. by that I mean: with the parts (tone-strands, voices) that make up the harmonic texture forth-sounded with intensity & individually-heard sonority.

If I am ever able to carry out this plan I hope very much that some of yr glorious music will be available (scored by you & not by me). In the meantime yr & my finest works (& the finest works of most of the most gifted music of composers of our race) languish in silence. I do not believe in condoning this condition. I do not believe in us composers being so "musical" that we wash our hands of all performance-duties. I do not believe in performers (conductors, etc) being so "un-musical" that they neglect the most musical music of their era. That is a vicious result of specialisation. We loved seeing Phyllis's charming drawings. Please thank her for a lovely evening.

Admiringly yrs Percy.

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