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 … (Goodman, p. 330). The move from Queen Square to St Martin’s Street in 1774 was a strategic decision, as his daughter Frances admitted several decades later in the Memoirs of Dr. Burney : the house had once belonged to Sir Isaac Newton and … Letters of Fanny Burney, ed. Lars Troide (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1988), xxi-xxii. 5 . Frances Burney, Memoirs of Doctor Burney, arranged from his own Manuscripts, from Family Papers, and from Personal …
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