excerpt from 'Music and Society in Eighteenth-Century Yorkshire' pp. 125 (181 words)
excerpt from 'Music and Society in Eighteenth-Century Yorkshire' pp. 125 (181 words)
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This morning I & my wife & Son in a Pearson’s Chaise Set out early [...] & got to Hull to Miss Cayley’s; we all went together to the High Church to the Selection of Sacred Music. Mrs Billington, Mr Harrison & Miss Cantilo sung delightfully indeed. The instrumental Band was not I think quite so good as when we had Oratorios at the Minster 20 years ago; but the Voices were so much superior that it was on the whole much preferable. My wife & I sat in Side Gallery front seat & after 1st act in East Gallery. The <music...?> organ with the Coronation anthem. I think I never heard any man sing so well as Harrison such chaste Simplicity, Taste, Delicacy, inexpressibly fine. Miss Cantelo sung charmingly especially “He was Eyes to the Blind” a sweet unaffected modest Singer & hav[e] such a fine Swell, Mrs Billington had such Sweetness, Delicacy & Judgement as can not be described. Sale, I dont like so well as Meredith & I did not like Pearson at all. The Funeral Anthem was very fine. [...] Charming music! |
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