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VGW(HU.773.056
6 May 1773:12 (1136)
London, March 11. The Oratorios at Covent Garden Theatre
are conducted in a manner which does great discredit to the
person who is intrusted with the management of them. Miss
Venables, a young lady who is a pupil of Michael Arne, and
whom nature never designed for a singer, as with all her
master's skill he cannot teach her to sing either in time or
tune, has most of the capital songs allotted her, while
Cately and Mrs. Mattocks, one of whom has astonishing power
of voice, and the other a great degree of judgement, sit
silent auditors of the young lady's murder of harmony.
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