Fifth Viscount Torrington in Cheltenham - 27 June, 1784, in the morning
from A Tour to North Wales, 1784, page 123:
I went to church afterwards like a good boy & pray’d for fair weather; the clerk sang with a melodious voice, & for some time alone, till join’d by a very soft female note I look’d round for the second, and found it to be a rough blacksmith who sang in a feign’d voice, that would have graced the Opera House[.]
cite as
John Byng, A Tour to North Wales, 1784. In C. Bruyn Andrews (ed.), The Torrington Diaries Containing the Tours Throughout England and Wales of the Hon. John Byng (Later Fifth Viscount Torrington) Between the Years 1781 and 1794, volume 1 (London, 1934), p. 123. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1546521289714 accessed: 19 April, 2024
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hide composers| singing in church | performed by a blacksmith, a clerk |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 27 June, 1784, in the morning |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Thu, 03 Jan 2019 13:14:50 +0000
Approved on Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:52:16 +0000