Alexander Mackenzie in Germany - the 1860's
from A Musician's Narrative , pages 32-33:
One the whole–with notable exceptions–the singing on the German operatic stage was not then of a superior order (often such as would not have been operated in unmusical Britain), and I was frequently amazed to note that so few of the natives seemed to be aware of the fact.
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Alexander Mackenzie, A Musician's Narrative (London, 1927), p. 32-33. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1431100769720 accessed: 4 December, 2024
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Date/Time | the 1860's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in public |
Originally submitted by gkw on Fri, 08 May 2015 16:59:29 +0100
Approved on Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:55:39 +0100