Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain Conference

The twenty-seventh annual conference was held on Friday 25 November 2011 in the Education Centre at the Foundling Museum.

Programme:

10:00    Coffee and registration

10:30     Jenny Nex (Royal College of Music) – Musical Gut String Manufacturers in 18th-century   London

11:10     David Knight (London) – Westminster Abbey Organ in the 18th- century

11:50     Catherine Crisp (Royal College of Music) – The Solo Clarinettist in London Concert Life    1740-1800

12:30     Reports and Information session

13:00     Lunch (provided in the Education Centre)

14:00     Ann van Allen Russell (Trinity Laban Conservatoire) – ‘A Total Revolution in our Musical tastes’: J C Bach’s orchestral style, and the ‘re’-shaping of English musical taste

14:40     Geoffrey Higgins (Northern Ireland) – Tidings out of the East: Charles Jennens’ Belshazzar and the Shah of Iran

15:20     William Davies (Southampton) – Negotiating the Life and Works of J A Dahmen (1766-1812), ‘the celebrated violincellist’

16:00     Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson (Brentwood, Essex) – The ‘Subscription Musick’ of 1703-4

c.16:40   Tea  (conference ends at 17:00, when the Museum will close)

Registration fee, including lunch with wine, is £15.00 in advance or £20.00 on the day. Registration fee also covers admission to The Foundling Museum between 10:00 and 17:00.

All enquires should be made via:

Claire Sharpe

Tel: +44 (0)20 7701 8038

Email: c.sharpe@ram.ac.uk

At 18:30 the Foundling Museum is hosting a concert of Eighteenth-Century Italian Music given by L’Avventura London, preceded at 18:00 by a talk by Jeremy Barlow, and followed by a reception with wine. For those who would like to attend the conference, concert and reception we are offering an exculsive ticket price of £25. Click here for more details about the evening event.

For directions to the Museum please click here.

The Annual Conference on Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain is organised by Claire Sharpe, Katharine Hogg, Colin Coleman and Barbara Diana.

Image: The Charming Brute, caricature engraving, hand coloured and published anonymously by Joseph Goupy; second issue, ca. 1754 © The Gerald Coke Handel Collection