Peter Hawker in Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham - 19 November, 1849, at night
from Journal entry, 19 November 1849, page 309:
In the evening I went to the weekly choral concert in the magnificent town hall, and not a little was I surprised at the performance. Some of the choruses went far better than on our stage in London (except when we had the Germans there), and the organ was splendid. A Miss Stephens (pupil of Sterndale Bennett) played extremely well Moscheles’ lovely fantasia on ‘Au Clair de la Lune;’ and all this for sixpence in the spacious gallery, and only threepence parterre.
cite as
Peter Hawker, Journal entry, 19 November 1849. In The Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker 1802–1853, volume 2 (London, 1893), p. 309. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1534357392837 accessed: 11 May, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| Choral music | |
| Organ music | |
Fantasia on 'Au Clair de la Lune'
written by Ignaz Moscheles |
performed by Miss Stephens |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 19 November, 1849, at night |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Wed, 15 Aug 2018 19:23:14 +0100
Approved on Thu, 23 Aug 2018 10:52:57 +0100