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3794 results for: Keyword - His Grace the Duke of Hamilton
We found 2101 matches on Performance Comments, 1118 matches on Event Comments, 464 matches on Author, 364 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

576
05 April 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Cast
Role: With Concertos on the Organ Actor: , and other Instruments.

577
25 June 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Written by Mr Dryden. The Pit will be floor'd over, and laid to the Boxes. [For further comment on the Licensing Act, see Daily Gazetteer, 24 June, and Craftsman, 25 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

578
17 February 1739 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Performance Comment: With several Concertos on the Organ-; other Instruments-.
Cast
Role: With several Concertos on the Organ Actor:
Role: other Instruments Actor: .

579
24 February 1739 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Cast
Role: With several Concertos on the Organ Actor:
Role: other Instruments Actor: .

580
20 March 1739 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For the Benefit and Increase of a Fund Establish'd for the Support of Decay'd Musicians or their Families. Written by Mr Dryden. Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Music: With several Concertos on the Organ-; other Instruments-; Particularly a New Concerto on the Organ-by Mr Handel, on purpose for this Occasion

581
22 November 1739 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Being St. Cecilia's Day. Boxes half a guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. 6 p.m. Particular Care has been taken to have the House well-aired; and the Passage from the Fields to the House will be cover'd for better Conveniency

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Performance Comment: Concerto on the Organ-.
Cast
Role: Concerto on the Organ Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: An Ode of Mr Drydens For St

582
27 November 1739 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Particular Care will be taken to have Guards plac'd to keep all the Passages clear from the Mob

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Performance Comment: Concerto on the Organ-.
Cast
Role: Concerto on the Organ Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: An Ode of Mr Drydens

583
12 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: N.B. That the Ladies and Gentlemen may not be detained at the Theatre while Tickets are given them, they are desir'd to send for them to Mr Arne's House in Craven Buildings near Drury Lane, Number 17, or to Mr Bradshaw, Box-Keeper, at the Kings Arms in Great Russel St., where tickets may be had, and places taken. Boxes 6s. Pit 4s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Ladies are desir'd to send their servants to keep places by Four o'clock. NB: Mr Arne humbly hopes the Town will not be offended at this small advance of Prices, being at an extraordinary expence for copying all the Music, building the stage, additional instrumental performers, chorus singers, and erecting an Organ. [The attendance apparently was heavy. See note to repeated performance on 19 March.] Mainpiece: Written by Dryden and set to Music by Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

584
19 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. [The same rise in price prevailed that occurred on 12 March, but without the explanatory note.] N.B. Those Tickets that could not be admitted on Mr Arne's Benefit night will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

585
17 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Deferred, according to Daily Advertiser 16 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: Judgment of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

586
01 March 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: With an additional New Act, call'd the "Choice of Hercules.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: New Concerto on Organ

587
06 March 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: New Concerto on Organ

588
08 March 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: New Concerto on Organ

589
13 March 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: New Concerto on Organ

590
02 March 1753 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For the Small Pox Hospital; Pit and Boxes 1!2 Guinea; a Treble Ticket at 26s., which admits a Gentleman and two Ladies to the Pit and Boxes, and the Gentleman to Dinner at Merchant Taylors Hall. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. No more Tickets will be disposed of than will conveniently fill the House, nor will any Money be taken at the Doors, or Collection at the Theatre. This being a Morning's Entertainment it is not expected that the Ladies come full-dressed. The most convenient way to the upper gallery at the Theatre, is through the King's Yard. To begin at 12 noon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Music: CConcerto-Stanley who is to conduct the performance

591
09 March 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: An Interlude. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no person to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd this day, at the office in Covent Garden theatre at half a guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be opened at half an hour after Four O'clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at half an hour after Si(

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Hercules

592
14 March 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Hercules

593
11 February 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

594
14 February 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes put together, and no persons to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd this day at the Office in the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be opened at half an hour after four o'clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at exactly half an hour after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Hercules

595
19 February 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Shakespeare Society will meet this day at Tomkyn's, in the Piazza, Covent Garden. Dinner to be on the table at Three. None to be admitted without tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Hercules

596
18 April 1755 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Passerini. Pit and Boxes half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. The Overture and some songs composed by his Majesty the King of Prussia. The Remaining songs by the best masters as Quantz, Nichelman, Benda. The Duet and chorus-Graun, chief composer of the court, poetry-Villati. The afterpiece "an Italian Pastoral.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: Charlottenburg Festeggiante

597
16 March 1756 @ The Great Room, Dean Street, Soho

Event Comment: By Desire and Consent of Frederic Handel, Esq. Afterpiece: Musick composed by his Majesty the King of Prussia. Pit half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. 6 p.m. At the Great Room, Dean St., Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: Charlottenburg Festegiante

598
26 February 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Both pieces under the Direction of Dr Arne. Mainpiece: Written by Dryden. Set to Music by Handel. Afterpiece: A Serenata of one Act set to Music by Dr Arne. N.B. Though the nightly expenses attending these performances during the Lent, will be at least equal to any on the like occasion, the Prices will be only Boxes 7s. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. and the Upper Gallery 2s. To begin as usual. Subscriptions will continue through the Lent to be taken at Three Guineas, for which the Subscribers shall receive Twelve Box tickets to be used at pleasure, till all are come in, which tickets may be had at Dr Arne's in the Piazza, next the Church, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: Beauty and Virtue

Music: I: Concerto on Violincello-Siprutini; II: Concerto on German Flute-Florio

599
03 March 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written on the late Royal Nuptials

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: Beauty and Virtue

Music: As17620226

600
03 March 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. This day publish'd Price 1s. Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music; written by Dryden. To which is added the Coronation Anthem as performed this evening at Covent Garden. Set by Mr Handel. This Day publish'd Price 5s. sewed. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing, by Giovanni Andrea Gallini, Director of the Dances at the Royal Theatre in the Haymarket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Music: As17620226; Handel's Coronation Anthem-