with Brian Lawrance Listeners will have noticed that Fred
Hartley has increased his ensemble to a Sextet. The reason for this change is entirely an economic one. Mr. Hartley had always found it extremely difficult to secure a first-rate musician who was equally at home on the viola, clarinet, and the saxophone and capable of playing difficult parts on any of these instruments. Therefore he at last decided that the easiest way out of the difficulty was to increase the Quintet to a Sextet and engage a separate viola player and a saxophonist doubling on the clarinet. The members of the Sextet are all capable of playing equally well a string quartet or a foxtrot.