Fifth Viscount Torrington in Middleham - 10 June, 1792, in the morning
from A Tour to the North, 1792, page 58:
[A]t eleven o’cloclk [sic] I was attended to the Church, and became there an object of speculation, I suppose, as a stranger, and being put into the Dean’s pew, (The Dean of Middleham). There was a decent, well-dressed, well-behaved congregation; with a singing loft, from which there was too much singing from, about, a dozen voices, male, and female; and two bassoons, of better accompanyment than an organ: one of their attempts was too powerful for them, ‘… more >>
John Byng, A Tour to the North, 1792. In C. Bruyn Andrews (ed.), The Torrington Diaries Containing the Tours Throughout England and Wales of the Hon. John Byng (Later Fifth Viscount Torrington) Between the Years 1781 and 1794, volume 3 (London, 1936), p. 58. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1546538635538 accessed: 8 November, 2024
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'And the trumpet shall sound'
written by George Frideric Handel? |
performed by church choir |
music at a church service | performed by church choir |
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Date/Time | 10 June, 1792, in the morning |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
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All spelling and punctuation copied from the source.