“There were over 400 people in the choir and a couple of…” — Freakonomics Radio at 16:08
“There were over 400 people in the choir and a couple of hundred in the orchestra. By the 1830s, they were doing these festival performances in the Abbey that had over 600 musicians in the middle of the 19th century around the centennial of Handel's death. They began doing performances in the Crystal Palace in London…”
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