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��performance, the arrival of the first two choruses of Part II. was reported, and the last chorus was not received till nine days before the Festival ! But the Birmingham singers were on their mettle. They enjoyed rehearsing the work, and they worthily maintained those splendid choral traditions which have so eminently distinguished the Birmingham Musical Festival.

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