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*pM.pcgr Concert. *mM.pcgr Vocal and Instrumental Music [....The orchestra was not very strong, consisting of no more than sixty persons, but it was incomparable%-; Signiora Margarita del'Epine; [sang, but she was by no means as pleasing as in the opera....She was the only person who sang. The instrumental music was extremely beautiful: $Pepusch=; who directs everything, and played the thorough-bass, excelled all the others. The violins too could scarce have been better. But most notable of all was a most charming concerto played with Pepusch by a flute and a viol di gamba. The person who plays the% flute [is a $Frenchman= called%-Paisible; [whose equal is not to be found....The second man, who played the% viol di gamba [with such uncommon excellence, is an $Italian= called%-Signor Pietro. *cM.pcgr Benefit $Francisco=. Tickets 5s. [See <i>London in 1710</i>, pp. 66-67, from which the above description is taken.]