The tempest in that act gave me the idea of the one which rumbles through the second act of _Samson_.
When the hall was reconstructed, the stage was destroyed so that such performances are impossible.

But to make up for this, they installed a concert organ, a necessary adjunct for musical performances.
Finally, in Auber's day and even in that of Ambroise Thomas, the director was master.

No one had dreamed of creating a committee, which, under cover of the director's responsibility, would strangely diminish his authority.

The only benefit from the new system has been the end of the incessant war which the musical critics waged on the director.

But that did no harm, either to the director or to the school, for the latter kept on growing to such an extent that it ought to have been enlarged long ago.