T. Acland et al. in London - in the beginning of 1846
from Letter from Baroness Bunsen to Heinrich Abeken, 2 April 1846, page 87:
Not long since T. Acland took me to hear the performance at St. Mark’s College-Church, the place where there is a training-school for schoolmasters: nothing new to others, but it was new to me. The boys are taught to sing, and the whole service of the Church is gone through by them in a fine style, musically considered: the chanting of the Psalms being only by them performed quite as it ought. That chanting is to me very satisfactory, and I would wish it everywhere: but to have the Venite, the Te Deum, the Jubilate, all in canto figurato, though ever so good, and a long anthem … more >>
cite as
Baroness von Bunsen, Letter from Baroness Bunsen to Heinrich Abeken, 2 April 1846. In Augustus Hare (ed.), The Life and Letters of Frances Baroness Bunsen, volume 1 (London, 1879), p. 87. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1383053035022 accessed: 30 October, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composerssacred muisc at St Mark's College Church | performed by choir of St Mark's College Church |
Experience Information
Date/Time | in the beginning of 1846 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by hgb3 on Wed, 04 Dec 2013 18:32:37 +0000