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الصفحة 549 - ... please more than to surprise ; but her taste is vicious, her excessive love of ornament spoiling every simple air, and her greatest delight (indeed her chief merit) being in songs of a bold and spirited character, where much is left to her discretion (or indiscretion), without being confined by the accompaniment, but in which she can indulge in ad libitum passages with a luxuriance and redundancy no other singer ever possessed, or if possessing ever practised, and which she carries to a fantastical...
الصفحة 565 - Lind sang her Swedish songs ; there was something so peculiar in this, so bewitching; people thought nothing about the concert room ; the popular melodies uttered by a being so purely feminine, and bearing the universal stamp of genius, exercised their omnipotent sway ; the whole of Copenhagen was in raptures.
الصفحة 544 - She made her debut on December 15, 1757, and remained on the stage till 1778, the most admired artist of the Paris Opera. In that year she left the boards and retired to private life. Arnould was not less renowned for her wit and power of conversation than for her ability as a singer and actor. A volume of table-talk, called "Arnouldiana," contains a host of her caustic and witty speeches.
الصفحة 445 - I wished to confine music to its true province, that of seconding poetry by strengthening the expression of the sentiments and the interest of the situations, without interrupting the action, and weakening it by superfluous ornament.
الصفحة 557 - II Barbiere," and was warmly applauded. The critics were unanimous in her praise. Catalani is reported to have said of her : "Elle est la première dans son genre mais son genre n'est pas le premier" (She is first in her class, but her class is not the first). And yet there may have been just a grain of truth concealed in this malice. In comic and light opera, such as "II Barbiere...
الصفحة 543 - The first note he sang was taken with such delicacy, swelled by minute degrees to such an amazing volume, and afterward diminished in the same manner to a mere point, that it was applauded for full five minutes.
الصفحة 545 - In truth and force of expression she was unequaled; her declamation was impassioned, her byplay "terrible," her silence "eloquent." Having studied the Greek and Roman statues, she abandoned the hoops and powder previously used in the costume of ancient characters, and adopted appropriate robes. In 1785 she made a journey to Marseilles, which resembled a royal progress. The excitement she created amounted to frenzy, and when she left Provence she carried away more than a hundred crowns, many of them...
الصفحة 549 - B 2 she throws out all her voice to the utmost, it has a volume and strength that are quite surprising, while its agility in divisions, running up and clown the scale in semitones, and its compass in jumping over two octaves at once, are equally astonishing.
الصفحة 442 - has been called a dramatised Volkslied. With regard to Boieldieu's work, this remark indicates at the same time a strong development of what has been described as the ' amalgamating force of French art and culture ; ' for it must be borne in mind that the subject treated is Scotch. The plot is a compound of two of Scott's novels — the 'Monastery
الصفحة 624 - Mary said to Joseph, With her sweet lips so mild, "Pluck those cherries, Joseph, For to give to my child." "Oh, then," replied Joseph, With words so unkind, "I will pluck no cherries For to give to thy child.