GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
[TO ERR EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR:]
Sra,—Permit me to correct an error of your contributor "C. L. G." on the above subject in your issue of Sep- tember 21st. To Mr. Lee Williams, late organist of Gloucester Cathedral, not to Dr. Sinclair, belongs the credit of having first dispensed with the assistance of the Yorkshire singers. Since Mr. Williams's resignation the chorus there has been entirely local This reform was not immediately adopted by Hereford; and the Faithful City was in 1899 still faithful to her "small contingent from Leeds." As the area of the three choirs could produce so splendid a body as the chorus of this year, could it not produce an orchestra as well The tendency at present seems to be to pass over the competent local musician in favour of one no doubt equally competent, but not local. It seems to me, however, that it would be more fair, economical, and in accordance with one of the original objects of these meetings to prefer the local man (where possible) to his brother musician of London or Berwick-upon-Tweed.—I am, Sir, &c., 2 Blenheim Terrace, Cheltenham.
CONWA.Y DIGHTON.
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