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nor taste very pleasing. The first violin
was played by Signor Lucchini, who leads
at the burletta; there were two or three
castrati among the singers. A little paltry
organ was erected on the occasion; there
was a large one in the church, but it
stood in a gallery, which was too small
for a band: the music was pretty; long
and ingenious introductory symphonies
to each concento, as each part or division
of the mass is sometimes called; and the
whole was in good taste, and spirited;
but the organ, hautbois, and some of
the fiddles being bad, destroyed the effect
of several things that were well designed.
As a principal violin, Signor Lucchini is
not of the first class; there is no want of
hand, but great want of finishing: he
had several solo parts given him, and
made three or four closes.
The singing, though in general rather
better than at our oratorios, was by no
means so good as we often hear in
England at the Italian opera. As yet I
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