Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… Enderby), ‘A Sunday concert’, © National Portrait Gallery London, NPG D14563, 1782. Abstract The ‘Sunday evening musical parties hosted by Dr. Burney’ were informal gatherings of musicians as well as writers, actors, and painters, in order to … & Leisure Keywords Art Audience Bluestockings Conversation Music Among those who visited the Sunday evening musical parties at the Burneys’ on a more or less regular basis were David Garrick (1717-1779), Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), … also travellers such as James Bruce (1730-94), lionized by all the cognoscenti of London. 1 In 1782, Dr Burney’s musical parties were eventually considered important enough to be caricatured by Charles Loraine Smith ( ‘ A Sunday Concert ‘ ). …
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