excerpt from 'In Pursuit of Music' pp. 123 (78 words)
excerpt from 'In Pursuit of Music' pp. 123 (78 words)
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We … worked our way through Italy, spending consecutive nights in Bordighera, Genoa, Rapallo, Pisa, Florence, Padua and Venice, enjoying sunshine, architecture, painting, history, and wine. Even music: though the open-air performance of Rigoletto we heard in Florence had such an aura of improvisation about it that it reminded me of a shirt-sleeved Ninth Symphony I had heard in a Budapest bandstand before the war, in which the chorus gradually sauntered up one by one during the Adagio. |
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