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| | DOUBLE-BLIND MUSIC |
 | | From that moment, I swore to myself that I would teach the blind to read and write so as to give them back their dignity! |
 | | Haüy: Well, about a dozen blind pensioners from The Hospice for the Three Hundred - dressed in grotesque clothes and wearing opaque spectacles - were playing a discordant piece of music, with all manner of instruments, which appeared to excite the the pleasure of the spectators. |
 | | Is it that blind tests of their comparable works in the same genre - the string quartet, the violin concerto, and the sinfonia concertante - during the same period - from 1766 to 1778 - would reveal Saint-George to be found wanting or, perhaps, in a much more disconcerting manner, quite the reverse? |
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