To return to _Orphee_ and end as we began, I have to make a painful confession. If the works of Gluck in general and _Orphee_ in particular have had a happy influence on our Mp3 Musical taste, a passage from this last work has been a noxious influence,–the famous chorus of the demons '_Quel est l"audacieux–qui dans ces sombres lieux–ose porter ses pas?_'