Musical evenings (Dr Burney's) [ Dance, Music & Songs / Sports & Leisure ]
… concert’, © National Portrait Gallery London, NPG D14563, 1782. Résumé The ‘Sunday evening musical parties hosted by Dr. Burney’ were informal gatherings of musicians as well as writers, actors, and painters, in order to perform in and listen … 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), Arthur Young … (1743-96), but 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 …
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