Events

Talks via YouTube from 9AM on Fri 27 November, 2020.

• Olive Baldwin, Thelma Wilson (Brentwood), An Old Singer’s Benefit Nights: attracting and entertaining an audience in the mid-eighteenth century
• Peter Holman (Colchester), Inexperience or Boldness? : Jeremiah Clarke’s Orchestral Writing
• Mary-Jannet Leith (Southampton), London’s Musical Scot: exploring James Oswald’s “Airs for the Four Seasons”
• Lizzy Buckle (London), A Chest with Two Locks: Felice Giardini and charitable benefits in eighteenth-century England
• Douglas MacMillan (Guildford), Small flutes in English music of the eighteenth century
• Eilís Lavelle (Belfast), Manuscript 29 – An introduction to Edward Bunting’s collection

Reports, questions, comments, discussion via Zoom from 15.00

• Sarah McCleave (Belfast), 'Fame and the Female Dancer' (project)
• Ellen Moerman, Charles Burney in Translation (project)
• Handbook XXIV and other notices

10.00  Registration

10.15  Thomas McGeary (Champaign, IL) — A new scenario for opera in London in its “Critical Decade”: opera in the English manner? opera in the Italian manner?

10.45  Jeanice Brooks (Southampton) and Wiebke Thormählen (London) — Making opera  one’s business : giving “voice” to female aristocratic patronage

11.15-11.45  Refreshment break

11.45  Matthew Spring (Bath) — Herschel in the Gardens

12.15  Roz Southey (Newcastle) — Thomas Bewick and the printing of tickets, 1783-1791

12.45-14.00  Lunch and Two Last Nights! exhibition viewing / Reports (from 13.45)

14.00  Ann van Allen-Russell (London) — Cultural economics and music business : the Bach-Abel Subscription Concerts, 1773-1775

14.30  Dominic Bridge (Liverpool) — Between culture and commerce : music publishers and their networks in eighteenth-century Britain

15.00  Sandra Tuppen (London) — Subscribers to the Concerts of Antient Music in the late eighteenth century

15.30-16.00  Refreshment break

16.00 Terry Jenkins (Pinner) — Hats on - or hats off : theatrical etiquette

16.30  Catherine Crisp (Chichester) — Clarinet performance 1760-1810: venues, audience attendance and reception

17.00  Conference ends

Followed by:

19.00   Indoor Fireworks! : interval entertainments from Drury Lane

Olwen Foulkes (recorder) introduces a programme of sparkly concertos by Antonio Vivaldi and Giuseppe Sammartini.    

Tickets: £12, £10 concessions & Foundling Friends