Megan Watts Hughes in Dowlais, Wales - the 1850's
from Life of Megan Watts Hughes, page 23:
The members of [the Temperance] choir consisted almost entirely of the working classes, and often would the men engaged in the Iron Works turn in on their way to night duty, to practise, arrayed in their soiled aprons, with moleskin trousers and little jackets with a handkerchief peeking out of their pockets, which they used to wipe the sweat from their brow as they stood in front of the fiery furnace -
"As I listened to them," she [Megan Watts Hughes] writes, "singing from Beethoven's "Engedi" "Worlds unborn shall sing His glory" … more >>
John Watts, Life of Megan Watts Hughes. In National Library of Wales, number NLW MS 21457D, p. 23. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1532957437424 accessed: 9 December, 2024 (By permission of the National Library of Wales.)
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Engedi
written by Beethoven |
performed by temperance choir, Temperance |
Experience Information
Date/Time | the 1850's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |