She told him that she had heard the Mass in Rome, but had been disappointed in the papal choir, and she explained why she preferred his reading to that of the Roman musician. But he would not be consoled, and when he mentioned that the altos were out of tune, Ulick looked at Evelyn.
“Father, dear, Ulick and I have had an argument about the altos. He says they were wrong in the Kyrie. Were they?”
“Of course they were, but the piano has spoilt your ear. What was I saying last night?”
He took down a violin to test his daughter’s ear, and the results of the examination were humiliating to her.
According to Mr. Innes, Bach was the last composer who had distinguished between A sharp and B flat. The very principle of Wagner’s music is the identification of the two notes.
She ran out of the r
