Harriot Georgina Rowan-Hamilton Blackwood Lady Dufferin in Kolkata

from Diary of Harriot Georgina Rowan-Hamilton Blackwood, Lady Dufferin, 30 January 1886, page 344:

The foreign officers have arrived, and we had a state dinner and a concert for them; the Hungarian violinist Remenyi played, and we had a very pleasant evening -- eighty people at dinner, and about sixty more afterwards. The music was in the drawing-room and a buffet in the ball-room, which opens into it with pillars, so that those who preferred talking to listening were able to stroll away and be happy in their own way.
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Diary of Harriot Georgina Rowan-Hamilton Blackwood, Lady Dufferin, 30 January 1886. In Harriot Georgina Rowan-Hamilton Blackwood Lady Dufferin, Our Viceregal Life in India: Selections from My Journal, p. 344. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1378373504 accessed: 28 March, 2024 (British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries 1500-1950)

location of experience: Kolkata

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concert performed by Remenyi

Experience Information

Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Notes

This was a concert held by the Viceroy in Government House, Calcutta (as it then was).


Originally submitted by hgb3 on Thu, 05 Sep 2013 10:31:44 +0100