The old musician is the slave girl’s harp teacher. He observes the girl’s performance for Cleopatra in Act IV. Cleopatra wants to learn to play the harp for Caesar, who loves music. She demands that the old musician teach her to play and threatens to throw him into the Nile and feed him to the crocodiles if she hasn’t mastered the instrument after two weeks of instruction.
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The Old Musician Character Timeline in Caesar and Cleopatra
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Act 4
...in Alexandria and listens to a slave girl play the harp. The girl’s instructor, an old musician , sits nearby and assesses the performance. Ftatateeta and some other female enslaved people listen...
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