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Updated: May 16, 2025
So truly is this the case that the improvisor appears to many as the only true artist, and his uncontrolled caprices as the farthest reach of human constructive power.
Other voices joined the leader's; a minor refrain swept up and down the line; and abruptly the climax swelled out in a diapason descending far into the bass. So that every one could sing, the improvisor had phrased his thoughts in Swahili, the inter-tribal language of Africa. He sang of the Bibi from afar, her skin like a bowl of milk, who was traveling as a bride to Fort Pero d'Anhaya.
'I quite expected, he used to tell afterwards, 'that my deliverer would seize me by the collar, and throw me out of the house. But, to the utmost amazement of the unwilling improvisor, the landowner, after waiting a little, patted him good-humouredly on the shoulder. 'Good, good, he said; 'I see your attainments; go now, and rest yourself.
Most of the coinage of his mind, and I think the best of it, came forth in a form which does not permit of its being recalled, the form of the spoken and unrecorded word. He was by nature an improvisor.
Digby replied he had never authorised its publication, written as it was in twenty-four hours, which included his procuring and reading the book a truly marvellous tour de force; for the thing is still worth perusal. He was always the improvisor ready, brilliant, vivid, imperfect. He must give vent to the ideas that came upon him in gusts.
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