Frances Anne Kemble in London - 2 February, 1848
from Letter from Frances Kemble, 3 Feb. 1848, page 613:
Mitchell sent me yesterday a box at the French theatre for a morning performance of the "Antigone," with Mendelssohn's choruses. Previous to the performance of the Greek drama, they played, very inappropriately it seems to me, his music of the "Midsummer Night's Dream," and the effect of it upon my nerves was such that, though screened by the curtain of the box, and my sobs drowned by the orchestra, I thought I should have been obliged to leave the theatre. It is the first time that I have heard a note of Mendelssohn's music since his death.…
The Greek play was given in the true Grecian … more >>
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Frances Anne Kemble, Letter from Frances Kemble, 3 Feb. 1848. In Records of Later Life (London, 1882), p. 613. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1375710149 accessed: 11 December, 2024
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
written by Felix Mendelssohn |
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Antigone
written by Felix Mendelssohn |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 2 February, 1848 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by hgb3 on Fri, 06 Dec 2013 12:06:49 +0000