Charles C.F. Greville in Roehampton - 12 August, 1834, at night
from Journal entry, 13 August 1834, pages 118–119:
Dined at Roehampton yesterday with Farquhar. Mrs. Norton and Mrs. Blackwood and Theodore Hook dined there among others. After dinner he displayed his extraordinary talent of improvisation, which I had never heard but once before, and then he happened not to be in the vein. Last night he was very brilliant. Each lady gave him a subject, such as the ‘Goodwood Cup,’ the ‘Tithe Bill;’ one ‘could not think of anything,’ when he dashed off and sang stanzas innumerable, very droll, with ingenious rhymes and excellent hits, ‘his eye … more >>
Charles C.F. Greville, Journal entry, 13 August 1834. In Henry Reeve (ed.), The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, volume 3 (London, 1874), p. 118–119. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1529917539890 accessed: 11 December, 2024
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hide composersImprovised song | performed by Theodore Hook |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 12 August, 1834, at night |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |