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Inglis Gundry recalled an incident at the Royal College of Music:
"I remember a piano sonata ••• that he tried
to play at a public concert, but, breaking
down, left the room in confusion. I hastened
to console him in his digs as soon as I could
get away. He was this shy nervous sort of
person •••"59
Lilburn's experience in the Noel Newson Memorial Concert intensified his
disinclination towards performing publicly. Later, he recalled the
incident in an interview, commenting " ••• that sort of precluded anything
more in that field".60 He also never again ventured into the field of
music criticism " ••• because I realised that this makes more enemies than
friends".61
59 Inglis Gundry, A student in London. Douglas Lilburn Op.cit. p.26.
60 Douglas Lilburn as in Fragments of a stolen conversation, op.cit.
p.22.
61 ibid.