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Musical Memories

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This resulted in the suppression of that part of the aria beginning _O Paradis sorti de l'onde_ as the saxophone did not produce a good effect.

Fetis also allowed Perrin to make over a bass solo into a chorus, the Bishop's Chorus.

The great vocal range in this is poorly adapted for a chorus.

Some barbarous modulations are certainly apocryphal....
We are unable to imagine what _L'Africanne_ would have been if Scribe had lived and the authors had put it into shape.

The work we have is illogical and incomplete.


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