MUSIC AND ART GALLERIES.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--It was in the Spectator that I first read the recom- mendation that the two arts of music and painting should be combined by the provision of music in our picture galleries. I was `much attracted by the proposal, for the combination seems to Me in every 'way 'desirable. Many' people who are not attracted by pictures are attracted by music, and they may then learn to love and understand pictures, which they would not otherwise have dOne. And even in the case of those whoneed no eonversion, it is ii`delightful eXperience to sit in a gallery and allow the music and painting to soak in simultaneously.
I learn that Mrs. Watts has decided to give a concert in the Art Galleries which contain many of G. F. Watts's picture's at Compton, near Guildford. The concert will be on Thursday, July 3rd, at 4 o'clock.. Lady Howard de Walden will sing; and Miss Sybil Eaton will play two violin solos, and also Mozart trio, accompanied by Lady Jeane Petherick (piano. forte) and Captain Guy Liddell (violoncello). The receipt:I are for the Organ Fund of the ancient Church-of, St. Nicholas. Tickets for seats in the • Green Gallery at £1 ls., and in the Red Gallery at 10s. 6d., can be obtained from Miss K. Macey, Limnerslease, Compton, Guildford.—I am, Sir, &c., A.
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