Anna Seward in Gloucester Cathedral - late July, 1791, in the afternoon
from Letter from Anna Seward to Lady Gresley, 30 July 1791, page 96:
[W]e walked through the cathedral at Glocester [sic], during choir-service in the afternoon, exulting in the superiority of our own, both as to architectural beauty and choral powers[.]
cite as
Anna Seward, Letter from Anna Seward to Lady Gresley, 30 July 1791. In Archibald Constable (ed.), Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, volume 3 (Edinburgh, 1811), p. 96. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1535705949385 accessed: 23 April, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| Choral music | performed by Choir of Gloucester Cathedral |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | late July, 1791, in the afternoon |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
By 'our own', Anna Seward refers to Lichfield Cathedral, near which she lived.
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:59:10 +0100
Approved on Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:15:40 +0100