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I'll be back before the evening is over." "Please don't stay long," Ida answered, looking wistfully after him. Then they found some ballad-music that they could sing together, and Van Berg expressed great pleasure in finding how well their voices blended. "You have modestly kept quite all summer, and I am just finding out that you play and sing," he said.
Though he had approved himself a brilliant master in the Italian school, his taste and talents also peculiarly fitted him like Sims Reeves, who seems to have taken Braham for a model for the simple and affecting ballad-music with which English opera is so characteristically marked. His only appearances in Italian opera in England after his return were in the seasons of 1804, 1805,1800, and 1816.
For her second part she chose Polly Peachum in "The Beggars' Opera," to show her detractors that she could sing simple English ballad-music with no less taste and effect than the brilliant and ornate style with which she first took the town by storm.
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