Alexander Mackenzie in Covent Garden - the 1860's
from A Musician's Narrative , page 48:
At the Promenade Concerts in Covent Garden (bearing that excellent conductor, Alfred Mellon's name) there were, beside the more popular excerpts from the Classics, much Mendelssohn and some Gounod–then slowly becoming known–to be heard.
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Alexander Mackenzie, A Musician's Narrative (London, 1927), p. 48. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1431112171006 accessed: 14 December, 2024
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Music by Gounod
written by Charles Gounod |
performed by Alfred Mellon |
Music by Mendelssohn
written by Felix Mendelssohn |
performed by Alfred Mellon |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | the 1860's |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by gkw on Fri, 08 May 2015 20:09:31 +0100
Approved on Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:53:54 +0100