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Light Fantastic: music and the Crystal Palace
On 1 May 1851 Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition of Art and Industry in Joseph Paxton’s newly-built Crystal Palace in Hyde Park – a building which would dominate British cultural life until...
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August Manns and the Crystal Palace Saturday Concerts
Sir August Manns (1825 – 1907) was a key figure in the life of the Crystal Palace until his retirement in 1901. First in 1854 as a clarinet player in Heinrich Schallehn’s wind band until a falling-out...
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The Great Handel Triennial Festivals
Large-scale choral performance of Handel had become a firmly-established feature through the work of Michael Costa and the Sacred Harmonic Society (founded in 1836) and the Crystal Palace provided an...
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Berlioz and the Crystal Palace
It’s been something of a Summer of Berlioz this year what with the CUMS performance of the Te Deum in June, the Grande Messe des Morts at St. Paul’s (with the LSO and Sir Colin Davis) and at the Proms...
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Now that the Hans Keller centenary is over, my lovely colleagues here at the UL were very concerned that I might be at a loose end. “I know,” they said “SW is a Berlioz fan isn’t she? We’ll ask her …...
View ArticlePigeons and bees at the Crystal Palace
Time travel is by far the most practical and achievable sort of travel at the moment. Whilst a time lord might be tempted to zip forward a few years in the hope that the deficiencies of the present day...
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