Thirty-fifth Annual Conference on MUSIC IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN
THE FOUNDLING MUSEUM, 40 BRUNSWICK SQUARE, LONDON, WC1N 1AZ
FRIDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2019
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
REGISTRATION FEE, including lunch and refreshments, and admission to The Foundling Museum between 10am and 5pm, payable in advance, £17 (£21 on the day)
By cheque payable to ‘The Foundling Museum’ – please send to: GCHC, The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ. By card: https://the-foundling-museum.arttickets.org.uk/the-foundling-museum/2019-11-29-music-in-eighteenth-century-britain (booking fee applies)
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
