John Marsh in St Alfege Church, Greenwich - the 1760's

from The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828), page 9:

As I was not a boarder at the Academy, I on a Sunday of course went with the rest of the boys to church, where my father had also now a pew, & where my musical feelings were excited by another organ, which however I did not by any means like so well as that I had been used to at the Chapel, it being in fact an old one & in bad condition, besides which it was also vilely play'd; the organist (Mr Dyer) being an old superannuated dancing master, who was now become blind & paralytic, so that he co'd hardly make shift to do the duty.
cite as

John Marsh, The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828). In John Marsh, and Brian Robins (ed.), The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828), volume - (Stuyvesant, New York, 1998), p. 9. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1394226999110 accessed: 28 March, 2024

location of experience: St Alfege Church, Greenwich

Listeners

John Marsh
Gentleman, violinist, Composer, Music criticism […]
1752-1828

Experience Information

Date/Time the 1760's
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Originally submitted by iepearson on Sun, 09 Mar 2014 18:23:57 +0000