Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… on the Haymarket was funded by Kit-Cat subscription in order to create a ‘cradle and forcing-ground’ for opera in England. 12 Tonson, meanwhile, used Kit-Cat dominated subscription lists to fund his publication of Caesar’s … they were hung as each was completed in the Barn Elms clubroom. 12 . Michael Foss, The Age of Patronage: The Arts in England 1660-1750 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1972), p. 148. Subscription music recitals were similarly … of the Commons and electoral campaigning impacted many major events between 1704-15. If the political stability of England in this period was due to ‘a sense of common identity in those who wielded economic, social and political power’, …
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