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Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Music: As17620226; Coronation Anthem-set by Handel

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Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Performance Comment: Occasional Words on the Birth of the Prince-; The Coronation Anthem-.
Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

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Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Music: As17630218; Handel's Coronation Anthem-

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Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Music: As17630223

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Music by Handel. Tickets 3s. By Particular Desire of the Right Hon. Earl of Ferrars, Grand Master of the Antient and Hon. Society of Free Masons. Mr Lowe's constant attendance at Marybone Gardens renders it impossible for him to wait on all his friends in person, he therefore hopes they will take tickets, in order to prevent mistakes at changing money at the doors

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Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Performance Comment: Fellow Craftsman's Song-Brother Lowe, Miss Plenius, Miss Catley, Miss Smith, Brother Legg. To the tune of Rule Brittania.

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Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Music: As17660226

Event Comment: NNeville MS Diary: To Ranelagh to hear a grand Jubilee Entertainment; it is the most elegant public room in the world and must give foreigners a high idea of the riches of our nation. It is circular and the fireplace is under a circular Portico in the middle, round which are tables at which the company are served with tea and coffee, and there are two sets of boxes at the side one above another for the same purpose. The landing room from the river which projects a little into the water commands a fine view of the river and country...Saw the Tripoline ambassador in the dress of his country. Took notice of a Miss Spencer and a Miss Johnson, two pretty ladies of the town, the latter had one of the prettiest faces I ever saw. Brunswick, Cumberland...Tripolian Ambassador...Miss Spencer and a Miss Johnson, two pretty ladies of ye town... were there...Began to use an Opera glass

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Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Song: Coronation Anthem-

Event Comment: [The two Coronation Anthems were: My Heart is Inditing, and Zadock the Priest.

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Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Performance Comment: With Two of the Coronation Anthems-.

Music: Organ Concerto, as17750303 Violin Concerto, as17750303 after First Anthem: Concerto on Hautboy-Mr Vincent

Event Comment: By Handel. By Command of their Majesties

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Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Performance Comment: with Coronation Anthems, two Italian Songs-; a Duetto-Mrs Weichsel, Sga Corri.

Music: I: Bach Concerto-Tacet, Cramer, Cervetto, Fisher; II: Concerto for Two Violins and a Violin@cello by Bach-

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Music: I: New Concerto for two Violins-; a Violincello by Bach-; II: Concerto on Violin-Cramer

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Stage Door of the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. Pit 5s. 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2nd Gallery 2s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]. Those ladies who have had Boxes for the Oratorios, and intend continuing them, are humbly requested to give notice to Fosbrook

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation Anthems

Music: End Part I: concerto on the organ-Stanley; End Part II: concerto on the violin-Linley Jun

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Tickets to be had and places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Stage Door of the Theatre, at half a guinea each. Pit. 5s. 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2nd Gallery 2s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]

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Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: Drydens Ode On St

Music: End I Oratorio: concerto on the organ-Stanley; End II: concerto on the violin-Cramer

Event Comment: By command of Their Majesties. Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the stage door, at half a guinea each. Pit 5s. 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2nd Gallery 2s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]

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Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: Drydens Ode for St

Music: End Part I oratorio: concerto on the organ-Stanley; End Part II: concerto on the violin-Cramer

Event Comment: Monody: The Airs and Chorusses set to music by Linley? Sen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Monody to the Memory of Mr Garrick Drydens Ode for St

Performance Comment: Cecelia's Day. As17810302but The Recitation-Miss Farren.

Music: As17810307

Song: In Oratorio: Verdi Prati-a Young Gentleman (1st appearance in public [unidentified])

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Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation Anthems

Music: End of Part I concerto on the violoncello by Crosdill; End of Part 11 concerto on the bassoon by Schwartz (One of the Chamber Musicians to the Margrave of Anspach; 1st time of his performing in public in England)

Event Comment: Oratorio: Set to Music by Handel. 2nd piece: By the late Henry Purcel

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Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: Bonduca

Related Works
Related Work: Bonduca Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Music: As17820215

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation Anthems

Music: As17830319athi

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: Drydens Ode for St

Music: As17830321athi

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

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Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts and 1st Violin as17840227 Coronation Anthems. Singers same .

Music: End of Part I of oratorio concerto on the organ by Stanley

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: Coronation Anthems

Music: As17840312athi

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: Some of the Pieces that were selected and performed for the Commemoration of Handel c

Music: As17850223

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Performers, Leader, Organ as17940307ART I. Overture. 'Twas at the royal. Happy pair. Timotheus plac'd. The song began. The list'ning croud. With ravish'd ears. The praise of Bacchus. Bacchus ever fair. Bacchus' blessings. Sooth'd with the sound. He chose a mournful. He sung Darius. With downcast looks. Behold Darius. The mighty master. Softly sweet, accompanied on the violoncello by C. Ashley. War, be sung. The many rend. The prince unable. PART II. Now strikes the golden. Break his bands. Hark, hark! Revenge, revenge. Behold a ghastly band. Give the vengeance. Thais led the way. The Princes applaud. Thus long ago. At last divine Cecilia. Your voices tune. Let's imitate her notes. Let old Timotheus. PART III. A GRAND MISCELLANEOUS ACT. Overture and March (SCIPIO). He measureth the waters and He layeth the beams by Bartleman (REDEMPTION). O let eternal Honors and From mighty Kings by Miss Parke (JUDAS MACCABAEUS). Softly rise O southern breeze by Incledon; Ye Southern breezes by Chorus (SOLOMON, by Boyce). Bravura Song by Mme Mara. The Lord shall reign by Chorus; And Miriam and Sing ye to the Lord by Mme Mara; The horse and his Rider by Double Chorus (ISRAEL IN EGYPT). To conclude with God save Great George our King and Rule Britannia .

Music: End of Part I Giardini's Sixth Concerto on the Violin by G. Ashley

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117. The King's Company. Andrew Newport to Sir Richard Leveson, 6 Dec. 1660: Plays at court every week (HMC, 5th Report, Part I, 1876, p. 158)

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Mainpiece Title: Rollo Duke Of Normandy

Performance Comment: Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, pp. 5-6) lists a cast which pertains to this period: Rollo-Hart; Otto-Kynaston; Aubrey-Major Mohun; La Torch-Burt.
Event Comment: The King's Company. Although the play was not licensed until 16 Oct. 1676 and not published until 1678, the Epilogue refers in detail to the burning of the King's Theatre in Bridges Street, Drury Lane, suggesting that the premiere came not long after that event

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Mainpiece Title: Henry The Third Of France Stabbd By A Fryer With The Fall Of The Duke Of Guise

Performance Comment: Edition of 1678: The Prologue-Mr Hart; Epilogue Intended-a Woman.
Cast
Role: The Prologue Actor: Mr Hart
Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 73: A box for ye Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 345

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo Duke Of Normandy