Walker-My_Musical_Ex.. - Walter Cosand

MY MUSICAL EXPERIENCES
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SIE STEENDALE BENNETT.
A FULL and faithful account of the efforts and studies
of an individual (especially if these efforts and studies
be self-chosen) is, in fact, the history of that indi-
vidual's life.
But I do not mean to write my life ; and the
following pages do not, therefore, contain every single
fact in my musical experience, but only such selections
from it as I beUeve may possibly interest those who
are working in the same field as myself.
How many whys there are in this world of ours, to
which scarce one of the answers given ever seems
to do more than circle and wheel round the central
point, never once hitting it right to the core ! How
many hundreds of persons have, like myself, asked
themselves over and over again, why they go on from
year to year, giving some of the best hours in their
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