Here for the first time it is now possible to enjoy in full the lively first-hand descriptions of eighteenth-century theater from the papers of philosopher and musician, James Harris (1709-80). These contain many new anecdotes about Handel and his music, exchanges of letters with famous performers (including David Garrick) and engaging reports of concerts, plays, and operas in London, Salisbury, Durham, Madrid, Berlin, and St. Petersburg, all of which contribute to fascinating insights into contemporary eighteenth-century musical life.
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`It will have a place alongside Deutsch's Documentary Biography on every Handelian's bookshelf.' Eighteenth Century Music
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Donald Burrows is Professor of Music at the Open University. He is a founding member of the Handel Institute and a Vice-President of the H�ndelgesellschaft.
Rosemary Dunhill is County Archivist for Hampshire.
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At the Hague is a French theatre, where we saw several persons of distinction: the pit has no seats (according to the French fashion) and on one side is a coffee-house for the benefit of the spectators. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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At the Hague is a French theatre, where we saw several persons of distinction: the pit has no seats (according to the French fashion) and on one side is a coffee-house for the benefit of the spectators. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
address for ticket sales, new serious opera, viaggiatori ridicoli, new mainpieces, buona figliola, oratorio season, crouded house, gott home, new comic opera, opera that night, seventh performance, buona figliuola, miscellaneous concerts, leading instrumentalists, musick meeting, new oratorio, sixth performance, oratorio performances, eighth performance, subscription concerts, subscription concert series, subscription series, fifth performance, funeral anthem, concert subscription Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
James Harris, Elizabeth Harris, Covent Garden, King's Theatre, Gertrude Harris, Thomas Harris, Diary of George Harris, Earl of Shaftesbury, Louisa Harris, Salisbury Cathedral, James's Street, Salisbury Festival, John Upton, Alexander's Feast, Lord Shaftesbury, Earl of Radnor, Hanover Square, King George, Benson Earle, Edward Poore, Lord Guernsey, Will's Coffee House, Miss Wyndham, Richard Owen Cambridge, Suffolk Street New!
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- Critical Observations on Shakespeare by John Upton on page 250, Back Matter, and Index
- Handel's Dramatic Oratorios and Masques by Winton Dean in Front Matter, and Back Flap
- Journals and Letters: Burney, Frances (Penguin Classics) by Fanny Burney in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- A General History of Music by Charles Burney in Front Matter, and page 881
- The School for Scandal (Dover Thrift Editions) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan on page 1046, and page 1050
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