John Marsh in Portsmouth - 2 January, 1769
from The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828), page 62:
On the 2d. of Jan'y 1769. I went to the Portsm' Concert, where I play'd 2d. ripieno & was wondrously pleased at meeting again with a grand crash, there being 16 performers, & on the 5th. return'd in the Salisbury coach to Romsey, with not quite as much alacrity however as I went the last time.
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. 62. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1394718508275 accessed: 3 January, 2025
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| Date/Time | 2 January, 1769 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by iepearson on Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:48:28 +0000