Charles Dickens and Music by James T. Lightwood
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[2] Moore's _Irish Melodies_. [3] Moore. [4] 'Seven Dials! the region of song and poetry--first effusions and last dying speeches: hallowed by the names of Catnac and of Pitts, names that will entwine themselves with costermongers and barrel-organs, when penny magazines shall have superseded penny yards of song, and capital punishment be unknown!' (_S.B.S._ 5.) [5] The 'Hutchinson family' was a musical troupe composed of three sons and two daughters selected from the 'Tribe of Jesse,' a name given to the sixteen children of Jesse and Mary Hutchinson, of Milford, N.H. They toured in England in 1845 and 1846, and were received with great enthusiasm. Their songs were on subjects connected with Temperance and Anti-Slavery. On one occasion Judson, one of the number, was singing the 'Humbugged Husband,' which he used to accompany with the fiddle, and he had just sung the line 'I'm sadly taken in,' when the stage where he was standing gave way and he nearly disappeared from view. The audience at first took this as part of the performance. [6] Miss Rainforth was the soloist at the first production of Mendelssohn's 'Hear my Prayer.' (See _The Choir_, March, 1911.) |
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