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4 results for: Roles - The Water Music

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09 May 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Music: Instead of Act Tunes will be perform'd Select Pieces of Musick adapted to various Instruments, Being deisgn'd as a Concert Intermix'd with the Play. For theOverture: a Grand Concerto- by Dr Pepusch, in which the Kettle Drums are principal,; accompanied with Trumpets Hautboys Violin-; The Kettle Drums-Mr Benj. Baker; V: That celebrated Piece, The Water Musick-; by Mr Handel, for Trumpets, French Horns, Kettle-Drums, Hautboys. Concluding with a Preamble on the Kettle@Drums-Benj. Baker

Cast
Role: The Kettle Drums Actor: Mr Benj. Baker
Role: The Water Musick Actor:
Role: Concluding with a Preamble on the Kettle@Drums Actor: Benj. Baker.

Dance: II: Tambourin-Miss Rogers; In III: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; III: Two Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling; IV: Sicilian-Glover, Mrs Pelling; V: Comic Dance in the Footing Manner-Jones, Mrs Ogden, with some Additions to it, never performed before

Song: I: Mrs Wright

2
31 March 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection Of Sacred Music 0; L'allegro Ed Il Penseroso 0; Messiah 0

Afterpiece Title: A Grand Selection of Sacred Music 1

Cast
Role: Tear such as tender father Actor: Bartleman
Role: with the March Actor: Chorus
Role: The Trumpet's loud clangour Actor: Chorus

Afterpiece Title: A Grand Selection of Sacred Music 2

Cast
Role: Father of heaven Actor: Sga Galli
Role: Behold the nations Actor:

Afterpiece Title: A Grand Selection of Sacred Music 3

Cast
Role: Select Parts of the Water Music Actor:
Role: accompanied on the violoncello Actor: C. Ashley

Music: As17970315

3
13 March 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Of Music, From The Works Of handel, boyce And purcell

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Cast
Role: For all these mercies Actor: Chorus

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Cast
Role: concluding with God save the King Actor: full Chorus
Role: Thou shalt bring them in Actor: Miss Waters
Role: He gave them hailstones Actor: Chorus

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Cast
Role: The Water Music Actor:
Role: Together let us range the fields Actor: Mme Mara, Incledon
Role: He was eyes unto the blind Actor: Miss Poole

Music: As17990306

4
14 March 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast 0; The Messiah; Grand Selection 0

Afterpiece Title: Alexander's Feast 3

Cast
Role: The Water Music Actor:
Role: God preserve the Emperor Actor: Chorus

Music: End II: a concertante for violin oboe tenor and violoncello-G. Ashley, W. Parke, R. Ashley, C. Ashley