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hood of London would be Bayswater , or Kensington , or Chelsea , or Brompton . Hilly ground should , if possible , be avoided , in order to spare the horses of the omnibi , which would attend such an
establishment in numbers for the conveyance of passengers . Query—Could not the proprietor maintain omnibi of his own ? When the Birmingham railway shall be available , the first twenty miles out may offer many suitable spots of romantic beauty , and the supply of provisions be rendered certain . Jtjnius Redivivus .
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584 The Royal Festival Job .
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It is somewhat singular , considering the progress which music has made in England during the preceding half century , that so long a time should have intervened between the last and the present Festivals . Since the commemoration of Handel , in 1784 , all the great works of Haydn , Mozart , Beethoven , and Spohr ,
have been written * translated , introduced into this country ; but though performed , repeatedly , at the great provincial Festivals , never heard , on the same scale of grand combination , in the metropolis . The reign of William IV . seemed , to those who have long desired such an exhibition of talent , more propitious than those of his brother or father . George III . tolerated only one
composer—Handel ; George IV . never courted or suffered the gaze of his subjects . Any thing which would have dragged him from his Windsor fortress into open day , was hateful to him . His brother is more willing to look his subjects in the face : and , hence , the endeavour to obtain his presence and patronage for a Festival was more likely to succeed . The commemoration in
1784 was undertaken for the benefit of the Royal Society of Musicians , an admirable institution , ( to which Handel bequeathed £ 1 , 000 , ) and the Westminster Hospital , and these charities , shared £ 7 , 000 between them . When the late Festival was first talked of , it was expected and intended by those who first planned it , that a similar appropriation of profits should be made to these
and other charitable institutions , and it becomes our duty now to expose the dirty trick by which this purpose has been defeated , and the whole affair assumed the character of a pitiful job ; while the liberality of the public , instead of flowing in a charitable direction , has been diverted into the muddy pool of monopoly and intrigue . The Festival has been managed by and for the chief benefit of the directors of an Institution in Tenterd en -street ,
known by the name of the f Royal Musical Academy . ' This school was got up by Lord Burghersh , ( the son of the Earl of Westmoreland , ) and is well adapted to concentrate the monopoly of the music-market in his own proper person and that of a feW titled associates . This sprig of nobility , who has the misfortune
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THE ROYAL FESTIVAL JOB .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 584, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/54/
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