excerpt from 'Thirty Years of Musical Life in London, 1870-1900' pp. 460-1 (99 words)

excerpt from 'Thirty Years of Musical Life in London, 1870-1900' pp. 460-1 (99 words)

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Thirty Years of Musical Life in London, 1870-1900

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Sims Reeves in the original instance was an opera-singer. I once heard him in opera, but he was then nearly sixty, and had long abandoned his stage career. I first heard him sing at the Norwich Festival of 1866, when he took part in Costa's oratorio “Naaman”. His voice was then still in its prime. A more exquisite illustration of what is termed the true Italian tenor quality it would be impossible to imagine; and this delicious sweetness, this rare combination of “velvety” richness with ringing timbre, he retained in diminishing volume almost to the last.

Sims Reeves in the original instance was an opera-singer. I once heard him in opera, but he was then nearly sixty, and had long abandoned his stage career. I first heard him sing at the Norwich Festival of 1866, when he took part in Costa's oratorio “Naaman”. His voice was then still in its prime. A more exquisite illustration of what is termed the true Italian tenor quality it would be impossible to imagine; and this delicious sweetness, this rare combination of “velvety” richness with ringing timbre, he retained in diminishing volume almost to the last.

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