Dr. S. Parkes Cadman tells this story of the late Dudley Buck, the
well-known musical composer:
He was offered a thousand dollars by the managers of the
Cincinnati Festival for a score which should embody solos,
choruses and the accompanying orchestration. He promptly refused
the offer, because it was not an open one to all competitors.
Thereupon the managers threw it open, and the result was that
Mr. Buck sent in “Marmion” and his setting of “The Golden
Legend” under a nom de plume, and, of course, its merits won the
prize.
(2018)
=Merriment Misplaced=--See DRUNKENNESS, THE TRAGEDY OF.