Jack House in Glasgow - the 1930's
from Music Hall Memories, page 119:
…[T]here was an annual visit from an ad-hoc Italian Operatic Company. The Italian community in Glasgow supported this in a big way. Indeed, it could be said that there was as much enjoyment to be got out of the audience as the performance. Not for them the respectful attitude of opera-goers who are shocked if anyone applauds precipitately. Before a tenor’s final top note, they were already clapping and shouting. They even demanded encores before the opera was allowed to proceed.
I was interested to note that one of their singers was not Italian, but Polish. She called herself Kyra… more >>
cite as
Jack House, Music Hall Memories (Glasgow, 1986), p. 119. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1411398523351 accessed: 1 September, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composersBonnie Prince Charlie | performed by Kyra Vane |
Italian opera | performed by Italian Operatic Company |
Experience Information
Date/Time | the 1930's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by hgb3 on Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:08:43 +0100