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406 LADIES, IN THE ORCHESTRA. .
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instrument he handles ; he imparts to it sadness or gaiety , fills it with agitation or live deli the ght , identifies life and himself be with it It , is so under that they that
condition may be said only to that he is same truly an artist . But one . what does it cost him to fulfil that condition ? He endeavours to impart his life to *
his instrumentand you would think this life was really passing away from Mm , , when you observe how uneasy and difficult is hi &
breathing li These . inconveniences for the healthdo nofc and cannofe
exist with grave those who play wind instruments , ; for , with them , whatever expression of feeling the musical phrase may require ,
the action of the lungs is indispensable to produce sounds . " So convinced am I of the happy results the practice of wind that should like to
instruments produces on the health , I see women u The engage notion in of it . women laying wind instrumentsespecially
p , lad brass y will ones hear , may of seem our strange system of momentaril at instrumental first . It may the hyg be iene objected of because her th coun at she no - will not consent to loseeven grace
tenance by blowing into , an . instrument . y , I do not think the objection a serious one . Besides , since it is not at the all influence necessary of to swell bad
one ' s cheeks as certain musicians do , under a artistic ainters training whoby , the I see bye nothing must have very had ug somewhat ly in it . pure The esthetical greatest
notions p , feared , not in a , great number of their immortal compositions to , represent their angelic phalanxes with trumpets at their in
mouthsand those celestial countenances have been no way with surround spoiled a , by trumpet Amp the hitrite manner to her ' s car of lips representation "blowing ? Are not into the . conches Is maritime her not ? Fame Are deities p not throug ictured who the h
wind cupids instruments who escort ? the Do Oytherean not the queen beautiful singing hs praises who follow in the train of the huntress Diana make the nymp hills and vales re-echo
the sounds of instruments almost similar to the new ones I have invented ? h the East
the " Grand The papers -Duchess say Constantine that , in her visited peregrinations the Sultan throug _' s haremwhich ,
, at that time contained about two thousand ladies . After having
passed entered throug the con h many cert-room richl , y on furnished e of truly apartments fairy-like , magnificence the princess . -
406 Ladies, In The Orchestra. .
406 LADIES , IN THE ORCHESTRA . .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/46/
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