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| | Music in Grand Irish Houses |
 | | The concert, by a two-piano team, Una Hunt and Stephanie Hughes (both Irish), was held in the Stone Hall, Mount Stewart's splendid entry hall, an octagon with a fl-and-white checkered floor, Ionic pillars, 11-foot paneled mahogany doors, statuary and a huge Stubbs of a racehorse hanging in the half landing above the hall. |
 | | Celebrating the 80th birthday of the Irish composer and pianist Joan Trimble, who was present, the Misses Hunt and Hughes played a program of Handel, Mozart, Trimble, Mendelssohn and Brahms, and as Miss Trimble remarked afterward, "It was quite, quite lovely," a comment that could be applied to all the concerts we heard. |
 | | The Earl seemed preoccupied with an 18th-century Irish harp, which he'd had restrung and put in a place of honor at the end of the music room, but the rest of us were too busy inspecting the beautiful reception rooms to give the harp its due. |
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