Edmund Gosse et al. in Islington - in the middle of 1857
from Father and son, page 52:
I had inherited a plentiful lack of musical genius from my Mother, who had neither ear nor voice, and who had said, in the course of her last illness, ‘I shall sing His praise, at length, in strains I never could master here below’. My Father, on the other hand, had some knowledge of the principles of vocal music, although not, I am afraid, much taste. He had at least great fondness for singing hymns, in the manner then popular with the Evangelicals, very loudly, and so slowly that I used to count how many words I could read, silently, between one syllable of the singing and another. My … more >>
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Edmund Gosse, and Michael Newton (ed.), Father and son (Oxford, 2009), p. 52. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1411746495949 accessed: 6 March, 2025
Listeners
Listening to
hide composersFor ever with the Lord | performed by Edmund Gosse, Philip Henry Gosse |
Just as I am without one plea
written by Charlotte Elliot, William B. Bradbury |
performed by Edmund Gosse, Philip Henry Gosse |
Experience Information
Date/Time | in the middle of 1857 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, outdoors |
Originally submitted by hgb3 on Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:48:16 +0100