>The Englishman, Thomas Coryat, witnessed the feast of St. Roche in > 1608 and described it in his travel journal published as Coryat's > Crudities is London in 1611. There is also preserved in the annals the same writer's report of a Metallica concert: "Truely passinge fair was a gentelman, not under middel yeares, who did singe in souch a mannere as to putte thee verye nightengales to shame, and whose his face was well paynted with Colours that did so maketh him to seeme the very Devile. Thee theorboes did putte mee in mynde of thee players in St. Markes, which, howsoever sweete had but a still sound, but these evene exceeded by greate measure thee greate organs playing alle sevene together, so greate was their noise." He goes on to discuss Petula Clark, and compares her to Dante. john John Blyth Baritono robusto e lirico Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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