16/21 It has the superior air of genius, and sounds very original. Mr.Forte is exhausted, and Dominie plays the accompaniment. Mr.Silver sings intelligently and unaffectedly; Mrs.Gold, as before, but with still less regard to time, and more out of tune; but she tries to compensate for this by introducing very long ornaments at the _fermate_ in the _allegro_, sung with her thin, piercing, over-strained voice; and she frequently rolls up her black eyes. At the conclusion, Mrs.Gold was led to the arm-chair, in great exhaustion of feeling._) MR.PIOUS.The divine art of music celebrates its perfect triumph in such interpretations of Haydn. Mrs.Gold, were those delicious _fermate_ of your own invention? |