. Programme . the management in 1728. There were changes in the character ofthe programmes and in the place of performance, but the fame ofthe concerts was firmly established. In 1750 there was a chorusof forty-eight with an orchestra of thirty-nine. Dr. Burney gave an amusing account of one of these concertswhich he heard in 1770 (The Present State of Music in Franceand Italy, pp. 23-28). The performance was in the great hall ofthe Louvre. He disliked a motet by Lalande, applauded an oboeconcerto played by Besozzi, the nephew of the famous oboe andbassoon players of Turin, disliked the scream
. Programme . the management in 1728. There were changes in the character ofthe programmes and in the place of performance, but the fame ofthe concerts was firmly established. In 1750 there was a chorusof forty-eight with an orchestra of thirty-nine. Dr. Burney gave an amusing account of one of these concertswhich he heard in 1770 (The Present State of Music in Franceand Italy, pp. 23-28). The performance was in the great hall ofthe Louvre. He disliked a motet by Lalande, applauded an oboeconcerto played by Besozzi, the nephew of the famous oboe andbassoon players of Turin, disliked the screaming of Miss Delcambre,approved the violinist Traversa. The whole was finished by BeatusVlr. . The principal counter-tenor had a solo verse in it whichhe bellowed out with as much violence as if he had done it for life,while a knife was at his throat. But though this wholly stunnedme, I plainly saw, by the smiles of ineffable satisfaction whichwere visible in the countenances of ninety-nine out of a hundred. SUITE209-2I0 420 BOVUSTON STREIET THE MAKANNA SHOP TAKESPLEASURE IN PRESENTING TOYOU THEIR NEW LINE OF HAND-MADE CREPE-DE-CHINE ANDGEORGETTE DRESSES, BLOUSESAND A SPECIALTY. 420 BOYLSTON STREET. BOSTON Many of her Exclusive Models have now reachedthe Department $ . AND . $ NO TWO ALIKE IN FORM OR COLOR 480 BOYLSTON STREET (BLOCK OF BRUNSWICK HOTEL) 222 BOSTON of the company, and heard, by the most violent applause that aravished audience could bestow, that it was quite what their heartsfelt and their souls loved. Gest superhe! was echoed from one tothe other through the whole house. But the last chorus was afinisher with a vengeance! It surpassed all clamor, all the noises,I had ever heard in my life. I have frequently thought the chorusesof our oratorios rather too loud and violent; but, compared withthese, they are soft music, such as might soothe and lull to sleepthe heroine of a tragedy. For this society Mozart, in 1778 and in Paris, composed
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