Then swirled near a band of gypsies and moors, with guitars, tambourines, mandolins and castanets, led by bizet; Africa seemed familiar land.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
bizet; Lascia ch'io pianga, Handel; Raff's Cavatina for contralto; Millard's Ave Marias numbering 7 and No. 1, Salutaris; Mozart's 16th mass.
"Sixty Years of California Song"
Margaret Blake-Alverson
His widow told Gounod that bizet had been so devoted that there was not a moment of their six years' life she would not gladly live over again.
"The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2"
Rupert Hughes
