Jeremy Bentham in Queen's College, Oxford - 5 May, 1763
from Letter from Jeremy Bentham to Jeremiah Bentham, 6 May 1763, page 73:
Yesterday being Thanksgiving day we had very grand doings here. The Vice-Chancellor read prayers, in the Course of which we had Purcell’s Deum perform’d by a band of Musick in the Organ-loft as well as the other Services: after which we had an excellent Discourse from (you may guess whom when you are inform’d that the Vice Chancellor had the appointment of the Preacher) Mr. Jefferson; […] the whole Service was concluded with Handel’s Coronation Anthem; in the Evening we had Fire-works play’d off; the expences defray’d by Subscription.
Jeremy Bentham, Letter from Jeremy Bentham to Jeremiah Bentham, 6 May 1763. In Timothy L.S. Sprigge (ed.), The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Vol. 1, 1752–76, volume 1 (London, 2017), p. 73. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1515493072156 accessed: 18 December, 2024
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Coronation Anthem
written by George Frideric Handel |
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Te Deum
written by Henry Purcell |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 5 May, 1763 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |