231:"Dear Miss Gollancz, A year or two ago your father told me you were studying the horn and at yesterday's concert I had the pleasure of seeing you, particularly in the Brahms Second Piano Concerto. May I offer you my warmest congratulations, your tone and phrasing in the solo passages allotted to the third horn rang out splendidly in the body of the hall â a real achievement for a woman artist â Bravo. Sincerely yours, Henry J. Wood."
179:. Her early musical education had included learning the clarinet though she was more successful as a pianist and violinist later changing to the viola. In order to ensure that Gollancz did not leave school without having completed her school certificate her mother offered her extra maths tuition necessary to pass her exams in return for a French horn.
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