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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2082, 26 October 1880, Page 4

Here ie the opinion of Duprez, the famous tenor, on the “Music of the Future,"and hie prophecy as to its effects ; though it may be incidentally added we hear much less about this music now than wo did a few years ago : —“ The music I have sung, the music of Boesini, Halevy, Donizetti, and even of Meyerbeer, has become unfashionable,” he observes, with a regret which has something of contempt in it, “ end is disdained and rejected by men who believe that they surpass those grand models.” He regrets the introduc* tion of “ musique cateadev.se ” and “ grand music,” the former trivial and the latter “ full of noise of tortured and bizarre harmonies,” which debase the vocalist to the level of the bassoon or some other instrument of the orohestra. 41 This new art, which addresses itself neither to the heart nor to the imagination, and which often wounds the ear, though possibly acceptable is _a symphony, is as disagreeable as offensive in the theatre, and will finish by destroying opera.” Of course Daprez has a love for the school of musio by which his fame was made ; but is he wrong ? .

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