Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell Bury in London - June, 1819

from Diary of Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell Bury, June 1819, page 189:

Last night we went to Lady [--]'s concert, and heard some fine finished singing; but there was nothing of pathos or of sentiment in the difficult and scientific pieces which were performed. The music, however, was good enough for all the attention that was paid to it by the company, who only meet (with few exceptions) to see and be seen, talk and be talked to, and care little in fact for the merits of the music they nominally assemble to listen to.
cite as

Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell Bury, Diary of Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell Bury, June 1819. In A. Francis Steuart (ed.), The Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, volume 2 (London, 1908), p. 189. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1375364707 accessed: 12 December, 2024

location of experience: London

Listeners

Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell Bury
Dama de compañía
1775-1861

Experience Information

Date/Time June, 1819
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors

Originally submitted by hgb3 on Thu, 05 Dec 2013 11:41:03 +0000