Fifth Viscount Torrington in Lincoln Cathedral - 29 June, 1791, in the morning
from Tour into Lincolnshire, 1791, page 346:
Climb hill to cathedral […]
The service was nobly perform’d; Drs Douglas, and Smith, canons residentiary, attended, in all form, and at the communion service; a choir of 10 boys, and 5 men, of whom one boy and two men appear’d to have good voices; the Litany was chanted in the middle isle by two lay-vicars with voices like bulls. When this duty is well done, it becomes the best spiritual concert; better than those at which you are overwhelmed by fiddlers, and Italian singers.
John Byng, Tour into Lincolnshire, 1791. 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 2 (London, 1935), p. 346. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1546537182815 accessed: 19 April, 2024
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hide composers| music at the cathedral service | performed by Lincoln Cathedral Choir |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 29 June, 1791, in the morning |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |