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The chorusses were all admirably given, particularly the Hallelujah at the end of the second act. The peculiar regularity and correctness of the above performance, was scarcely less the subject of astonishment than its extraordinarily noble effect, and afforded a corroborating proof of the claim the Sub-Directors, who conduct the executive part of this striking example of national taste, and national mastership in the arts musical, have upon the publick for their warmest approbation and gratitude. Their Majesties, four of the Princesses, and above auditors, came away in raptures from the Abbey, which had been the scene of their extacy for three hours successively.

Clergy and Establishment for the Blind. Besides irradiating the country with the lustre of patronizing the arts, the Commemoration of Handel may be estimated as producing other consequences, nationally cognizable—as the encrease of money thrown into new circulations, additional influx of foreigners, some little aid to the Revenue, by incidental travelling, dress destroyed, carriages, and other benefits to trade. The band which the publick have lately heard in the Abbey, is the most numerous, as well as the most perfect, ever known to have been collected in Europe.

At Vienna, it is recorded, that there was once a band of above musicians—but never another instance of more, or indeed so many. The profits resulting from the different performances in Commemoration of Handel, will make a wonderful total. The first and second Abbey performances each had near persons present; the Pantheon ; the Rehearsal at the Pantheon near ; the Rehearsal at the Abbey above persons paid; the third and fourth Abbey meetings, yet to come, may be expected to produce as much as the preceding—of course, in all, the receipts will be above 18,l.

The disbursements, we understand, cannot be above l. AFTER having made our Readers acquainted with the Band and Singers brought together on this Occasion, they will imagine, rather better than we can describe, the Excellence and Grandeur of the Performance. Not that it was free from reprehensible and inexcusable Faults. The sickly Melody of Pacchierrotti, unnatural as the Tones are in which it is expressed, is wonderfully captivating; and Madame Mara is the genuine Child of Nature and Genius. They were too sparingly introduced; and the inferiour Singers had Parts assigned them to which their particular Talents were not suited.

But all Murmurs were silenced by the commanding, perhaps terrifick, Manner in which the Chorusses were performed. Agitated and affected as we were by them, we could not keep out of our Minds Ideas of Regret and sometimes of Disgust, arising from the Nature, Character, and Views of the Assembly, and the aweful Subject of the Entertainment. It has been the diligent Study of Men in Power in this Country for twenty Years, to discredit every Principle that can render Man useful or respectable.

The Assent given to the Excellence of the Performance; and the Resistance made to the terrifick Truth of the sublime Sentence, formed a mingled Expression more unpleasing and hateful than can be well imagined. This Circumstance has long induced us to avoid Oratorios; as they are performed exactly in the Manner of Parodies, to ridicule and insult the moral and religious Sentiments they were meant to promote; and it will make us deem the Commemoration of Handel a signal Proof of the musical Proficiency, and the abandoned Profligacy of the present Period.

Though the Condition of publick and private Affairs be the most desperate which can well be imagined, yet London has not at any Period exhibited such numerous Instances of the most expensive Entertainments as have engaged our Attention in the last Month. Last Night the Engagement to the Pantheon was not sufficient. Miss Vanneck, Lady Basset, and we believe some others, vied with the Managers in the Splendour of their Entertainments.

But Entertainments of this Kind in private Houses break in on the publick Masquerade. The genteelest Company is engrossed by them; they arrive late in the publick Room; their Spirits are evaporated; and they stroll and lounge, as the Gentry do at a Country Wake. The Masquerade at the Pantheon was sensibly affected by such Circumstances last Night; and a general Langour prevailed by the Managers set the grotesque Gentry in Motion, and diffused mirth and Jollity through the Room.

The Characters, as usual, were very few; and those performed by Persons who are too often seem in them to give Pleasure. There was a Giantess ten Feet high, which occasioned general Consternation, and alarmed the Managers for their Chandeliers. The Whole was well conducted; and we hope the Managers found their Account in it. The compliment paid by Edwin on Saturday evening to the vocal powers of Madam Mara, was just, well introduced, and well pointed. Frances Fanny Evelyn-Glanville to Hon. Mrs Edward Boscawen, 29 May: I can give You no Idea of it, nor expect You will credit that upwards of Musicians perform in Harmony as in a Concert of 20 hands.

I have not been at Either of the Performances but I went to the Rehearsal Yesterday wch gave me a very good Idea of it […]. Their Majesties had 5 or 6 children with Them. The Pr of W was not there either Morning. Johnson] had now a great desire to go to Oxford as his first jaunt after his illness. We had talked of it for some days, and I had promised to accompany him. He was impatient and fretful tonight because I did not at once agree to go with him on Thursday. When I considered how ill he had been, and what allowance should be made for the influence of sickness upon his temper, I resolved to indulge him, however inconvenient it might be.

I had omitted to attend the first days of the Commemoration of Handel in Westminster Abbey. The third and last was to be on the following Saturday, and it was then believed that there would [not] be again an opportunity of hearing that very magnificent [ ] musical performance in which upwards of 2 exerted their talents. I thought it hard to lose this, but I was willing to make the sacrifice for the quiet and complacency of Johnson.

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However, Sir Joshua Reynolds, who then thought that I certainly should not lose it, suggested an expedient, which was that I should go with Johnson to Oxford on Thursday, and having seen him safe there, return to town on Friday, be at the Commemoration on Saturday, and go again to him afterwards. This, Sir Joshua thought he could not take amiss, but must rather consider it as paying him a great compliment to go to Oxford purposely to attend him.

Admittance to the rehearsal at the west door only at half-a-guinea each person. Several adventitious benefits in the wonder-working way have arisen from the commemoration of Handel; it has not only made the people of fashion get out of bed by times in the morning, but it has induced them to go to church! The metropolis has been greatly benefited by the Jubilee.

It has brought an immense number of the distant gentry to town, who were all to be new equipped on the occasion, and who consequently have given an advantageous spur to the fashionable trades. The Nobility and Gentry are respectfully informed, that there can be no other Masquerade in London this year, but that which will certainly be at the Pantheon to-night. The Opera House and the Pantheon are the only places where Masquerades are permitted, these being under the immediate protection and licence of the Lord Chamberlain. The jubilee of Handel. The King childishly pleased; bespoke it twice more, and went for it to the Pantheon, whither he had never been for its own merit.

The Queen for popularity was said to bespeak the fourth representation.

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He had lost 13 provinces, made two ignominious peaces — and was consoled by his victory over Fox and the House of Commons, and by the splendour of presiding at the jubilee! The band which the public have lately heard in the Abbey, is the most numerous, as well as the most perfect, ever known to have been collected in Europe.

The first and second Abbey performances each had near persons present; the Pantheon ; the rehearsal at the Pantheon near ; the rehearsal at the Abbey above persons paid; the third and fourth Abbey meetings, yet to come, may be expected to produce as much as the preceding—of course, in all, the receipts will be above 18,l. The first and second Abbey performances each had near persons present! The Pantheon ; the rehearsal at the Pantheon near ; the rehearsal at the Abbey meetings yet to come, may be expected to produce as much as the preceding—of course, in all, the receipts will be above 18,l.

The pavillion fitted up for their Majesties to hear the Music in commemoration of Handel was left standing, and opposite to it was the representation of an organ with a transparent bust of Handel finely illuminated, both of which had a good effect. The company consisted chiefly o[f] dominos, the characters being very few, and some of them indifferently supported, among the rest was discovered Mrs. Merlin as a gigantic Mother Shipton moved about the room, apparently with great ease; a person dressed as a Coal-heaver, with a label on his back, importing, that owing to the Great Seal being stolen, he had procured a Patent of Peerage, by the name, stile, and title of Earl Longtail, Viscount Ship, Baron Coalmine, of the County of Westmorland, Mr.

D—— in the character of Sir Jeffrey Dunstan, Night Mare of Garrat [,] soliciting votes against the approaching Election, in which he was threatened to be opposed by Lord Pompey. The other characters consisted chiefly of noisy Watchmen, dirty Beggars, drunken Hair-dressers, and a few Fruit and Flower-girls. Westminster Abbey, on Saturday next, will be far superior in point of number and rank to any of the former meetings. The Nobility, as well foreign as British, thinking themselves called upon to shew their respect to our amiable Queen, who has condescended to order the Performance for that morning, a circumstance that has not happened since she became the Partner of our Sovereign.

Their Majesties having declared themselve[s] Patrons to the Charity established by the Musicians for the benefit of their decayed brethren, they appeared at the Abbey on Saturday last with gold medals struck upon the occasion. The Directors found themselves under the necessity of changing the mode of disposing of the tickets, as it has been discovered, that some very improper conduct had taken place to the injury of the charity. One of the assistant Directors attends to deliver the tickets, in order to prevent any further impositions upon so laudable an undertaking—for it has appeared, that not only the charity has been injured, but the public very much imposed upon, by having more money exacted for the tickets than the noble Directors intended.

The number of these forgeries is said to be between five and six hundred! One of the Assistant Directors attends to deliver the tickets, in order to prevent any further impositions upon so laudable an undertaking—for it has appeared, that not only the charity has been injured, but the public very much imposed upon; by having more money exacted for the tickets than the noble Directors intended. The number of these forgeries is said to be between five and six hundred.

Why do not the Directors of the Commemoration of Handel announce the names of those abandoned men who, on so great an occasion as a national festival for a public charity, have practised arts for which they should be punished? If the rumour be true that certain of the persons whom they entrusted to dispose of the tickets have abused their confidence, the public should be made acquainted with their names.

They should be proscribed as well as execrated[. The exposure is due also to those who faithfully executed their trust. Commemoration of Handel ,—4 th Day. The Ab[b]ey was not so much crouded yesterday as upon any of the former days, occasioned by the Messiah being advertised for Saturday. There were not more than two thousand present, who all retired with the satisfaction that has attended every one of the meetings. We hear that Doctor Burney is preparing for immediate publication, an account of the plan, conduct, and effects, of the musical exhibitions in Commemoration of Handel, in which will be inserted, from accurate and authentic information, the number of auditors who attended each performance, the expences, surplus, and disposition of the whole profits arising from this stupendous design, and its successful execution.

Madam Mara has behaved with a generosity almost unexampled. Madam Mara thanked the Directors for th[ ei]r generous intention, but begged leave to be excused from accepting any pecuniary reward, declaring that she considered her being in England at this period, one of the most fortunate circumstances of her life, as it gave her an opportunity of assisting in the most splendid musical scene that ever was exhibited, as well as promoting a charitable scheme. The Directors felt as they should have done upon the occasion, and mentioned the circumstance to the principal Nobility, who have undertaken to patronize Madam Mara at her approaching Benefit.

We are not decided in our opinion who most deserves our approbation, Madam Mara for her disinterested generous behavior, or the Directors and Nobility for their intended support of her; it must be acknowledged that the conduct on all sides is praiseworthy, and we hope will be adopted by others. The orchestra was as multitudinous as ever, and the performance was in the same grand and unprecedented stile.

The moral effects of the exhibition; the holy passion which it engender in the bosom; and the elevated notions of religious worship which it instilled, are circumstances that tend to aggrandize this memorable feast. The visible impressions which the lofty strains made on the audience; the fervor and the awe inspired by the grand passages of the full chorus; such for instance as,. Here it excites emotions favourable to virtue; it imbibes in the most thoughtless bosom, ideas of the ineffable grandeur of the Deity, and it disposes his soul to the consideration of that worship, the solemnities of which are so impressive.

The feelings of the auditory were stirred to all the kindred emotions of the music—of that music, whose character and articulation is every where as distinct as language. In the Funeral Anthem they were involved in a flood of tears. In the Coronation Anthem , it was a flood of rapture.

The instruments were as before, individually great, and in the whole wonderful.

The last exhibition is fixed for Saturday, and the inducements are more than usually strong[. Their Majesties yesterday wore the medals struck in Commemoration of Handel. The three eldest Princesses only accompanied their Royal parents. Of the large number of our deluded countrymen, who have been tempted since the peace, to try their fortunes in America, three fifths of them have been obliged to work their passage back again to Europe, in all the varieties of the extremest w[r]etchedness.

Perhaps it would be no bad appropriation of some of those large sums, received at the different Commemorations of Handel, were distributed among the distressed adventurers above-mentioned. No set of men can want it more—and considering the excessive impositions daily practicing by the American agents, as the blame of these unwary wretches, really receives much mitigation, so also should their sufferings. On Saturday last finished the Concerts in Westminster Abbey[ ;] it is unnecessary to say a word in commendation of either the music or performance, their excellence is sufficiently known and acknowledged.

The Noblemen and Gentlemen who conducted this musical phenomenon are entitled to every commendation a grateful people can bestow on those who have been concerned in any scheme that does honour to the nation. The Commemoration of Handel is a circumstance by no means below the dignity of the Historic Muse, and it is with anxious pleasure we look forward to Dr. We have heard it asserted that in the same proportion a nation becomes attached to the fine arts, in the same proportion the minds of the people become enervated, and regardless of their political liberty, and that music, more than any other science emasculates the mind.

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Whether this position be true or false we have not leisure to examine, though we are ready to grant, that where music becomes the business of a people, it may and perhaps does produce the effect alluded to, but where it is taken up as in England by way of relaxation from the more weighty concerns of the statesman and merchant, no evil consequence can possibly, in a national point of view attend our attachment. On the contrary, Concerts assist in forming the manners of our youth, by giving a polish to their behaviour, not often met with among a people, where music does not constitute part of their public amusements.

The Abbey was full of Company, and accommodated, without inconvenience, as the Assistant Directors had taken care, that none should be admitted, without tickets, and no more were disposed of, than could conveniently get seats. Saturday being the last performance for the commemoration of Handel, curiosity led a correspondent [Burney? Richards of Drury Lane theatre was not of the band, although his name has been published in every list.

There was not any person played from the book of the wonderful conductor Mr. Bates, or with the accomplished leaders Messrs. The last mentioned gentleman led the last four days in a most capital stile. The first stand of each part was marked in the following manner:.

Violoncellos—first side, Crosdill and Mara: Second Violins—Borghi and Soderini: Tenors—first side, Hackwood and Shields: The Solo Trumpets were Sergeant and Fitzgerald. Ashley, the assistant Conductor, performed on a double bassoon, an instrument very uncommon in this country; it had a fine effect in the chorus; and Mr. Asbridge beat his superb drums with great judgement. The whole was capital beyond description; but why leave Mr. The solo singers were,. Abrams, Signor Bartilini [ sic ]. Champness, and Signor Tasca. The two last performances in the Abbey, though the worst attended, were the best worth attention of any of the four—the third, particularly, remarkably aided by the grand concertos.

Of the pieces, merely instrumental, the March in Saul, was to be preferred, from it[s] strong power of contrast, in the display of the band.

As to the vocal parts of these performances, it cannot be too much regretted, that the single airs were not made the most of. Much, it has been observed, was done by Mara —how much more would have been the triumphant effect of these grand performances, if other excellence had been resorted to—if, in particular, Pacchierotti had borne the part, he should have done in the Triumph, and with his great executive genius, illustrated the genius of this unexampled composer.

Of the two leaders, Cramer was more powerful than Hay —more correct, more delicate, more impassioned, he could not be. So have Fischer and Parke , Florio and Decamp. As for Tacet , whose flute, taken for all in all, is, perhaps equal to any, he had some petty cause of quarrel with his associates, which through a heedless and intemperate assertion, made him, after the first day, leave the band.

It is to be wondered at, and for his own sake lamented, that Giardini , so far flouted at this solemnity, that he did not give in his name. The same is to be said of a few other transcendent musicians, of Schwartz the bassoon. Stanley could not have played the organ with more truth nor animation than Mr. Bates, but yet, with much more reason, than give any part above a chorus to Clarke, Knivett, Champness, Corfe, and Dyne, Stanley should have been indulged with, what he would have felt an honour, some portion, if but a small portion of the conducting. The organ is the most highly finished one, which that leading artificer, Mr.

Greene, had prepared for Canterbury Cathedral. The front [is] a temporary one. It is to be noticed, that Mr. Greene, and three or four of his friends, set [sat] during the performance, in one of the recesses of his capacious instrument. Norris and Reinhold both added to their reputation. In such complete good management was the whole conduct, and every operation in this complicated and laborious undertaking, that it was completed without a single accident, either mechanical or musical. The time and tune were wonderfully, maintained in perfect order.

There was not any disorder among the music stands, the various instruments, or the seats. The seats, by the bye, were but little used, it being very properly hinted by Mr. Hay, that it would be better for the musicians not to sit, if it was wished their powers to be kept unflagging, and in a proper posture to see and follow their leader—accordingly, the band all stood. And such was the zeal of all the professional men on this occasion, of their profession being exalted, that this band, whose unexampled numbers, the public already know to be above five hundred, were all voluntary supporters of the cause, who, for the time separated and far apart, from their private business, were, by this attachment to the service, losers, from five to fifty guineas each.

The numbers returned, as appears by checqued tickets, and entries made at the time, were, never less than musicians in the band. Nearly as many more offered their services, which, for want of room, were forced to be refused. Of the Directors, who all took great pains, Sir W. Wynne was the most assiduous. The music in score, were as well as those who performed, brought from all parts of the kingdom.

Not many disagreements were found in the different copies[ ;] the Oxford copy had the most. It was most numerously attended, a compliment due as much to the memory of the immortal Composer, as to the amiable Personage [i. The festival which has done so much honour to the nation has thus concluded as brilliantly as it began. We have already given our feeble testimony to the honours of the superb spectacle; we are happy that it is to be taken up by the elegant Historian [i.

Burney], to whose province it so peculiarly belongs. He will do justice to the scientific merits of the performances, and his authority will give to this Triumph of the Art the monument which it deserves. For a more informative account of the event we turn to the diary of another member of his party, Miss Mary Hamilton, granddaughter of Lord Archibald Hamilton he was a younger son of the third Duke of Hamilton and niece of Sir William Hamilton, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Naples.

She and Boswell had family connexions and many friends in common Sir William Hamilton was a member of The Club, and Boswell had known him since , but on her own testimony they first met on this day. A young lady of twenty-eight, she had served for five years as assistant sub-governess in the royal nursery the Prince of Wales at the age of sixteen had made her the object of a violent infatuation , was a correspondent of Horace Walpole, and was on terms of intimacy with Mrs. Got up at six. At a quarter before nine Dr. Burney and Miss Palmer came for me in Dr. Sir Joshua Reynolds and Mr.

The lower part was already filled with people, but Dr. Burney got us the proper seats for hearing the music. Sir Joshua introduced me to Mr. Boswell who wrote the [ ] history of Corsica.

From nine to twelve passed away very agreeably in conversation with Miss Palmer and these three sensible men and in remarking the countenances of the company […] Mr. Boswell is one of those people with whom one instantly feels acquainted. We conversed together with as much ease and pleasantry as if we had been intimate a long time [ The spectacle too was sublime. So universal a silence. So great a number of people [ Elizabeth and Florence Anson, , pp.

I said to Dr Arnold the figures in the glass window looked like come down to join chorus—to meet half-way. Once for herself she sings, with grateful haste. Reward her, sons of genius, bounty, taste. Dr Orme was not in the house ten. I hope this good news will make some. The Abbey was the finest sight. The Organ a very. The kings throne was erected at. I wish I could give you any idea. As to the Music it was far. The pantheon was richly ornimented. The two last performances.

I went to get a News paper. I was perfectly sincere when I told you I was sorry to leave your society. But I had a very sufficient reason when my [ 20 ] object was to hear the wonderful performance of the Messiah in Westminster Abbey. To the Printer of the St. THE Commemoration of Handel seems to have been so well received by the Publick, that it is proposed annually to adopt some similar Mode of celebrating such as have rendered themselves useful to Society. Next Year the Memory of Mr. Garrick may possibly be devoutly revived in Westminster-Abbey.

Preparations, Scaffolding, Attendance, such as the present, are as requisite to honour the Man who could elevate, or soothe, or depress the Soul at his Will, in the same Manner as hath been exerted in Honour of the Composer of Musick. The reverend Bench of Bishops will gratefully appear at this second Festivity, mindful of him from whom, perhaps, they formerly imbibed some Portion of that persuasive Eloquence by which they so frequently [verb?

Johnson, in Honour of his deceased Friend, might select such Pieces of our most admired Authours as would best suit with so remarkable an Occasion; and the most approved Actors and Declaimers of the present Age would undoubtedly display their utmost Talents in the Recital, and convince every one of the Necessity of annual Commemorations of this Kind. Charity also whose fair Name the sour and ill-natured assert to be prostituted at these Assemblies may lend her Aid, and the Money raised may be advertised as an intended Increase to the Fund for supporting decayed and indigent Actors. Garrick shall have received their due Share of Praise, Kings, Princes, Statesmen, Warriours, and the long Train of those who have been esteemed during their Lives for some real or imaginary Service to Mankind may have the Honour of being commemorated also, and thus a perpetual Succession of Amusement may arise, and be a powerful Inducement to the present Race to emulate the Glory of those who have gone before them.

Give me Leave, Sir, to conclude with a Query or two to those Rev. Whether it is consistent with the character of any Man, or Body of Men professing themselves to be actuated by the Spirit of real and fervent Religion, to permit the House of God to be applyed [ sic ] to such Purposes as these? Whether the Interruption of the daily service of the Church, to the Performance of which they are bound by every Tie, civil and religious, ought by them to be omitted for the vile and despicable Design of praising a Composer of Musick?

A Man who hath seen better Days. The King has presented to the treasury of the Musical Society, a purse of five hundred pounds, for the augmentation of that charity. The following inscription, on a tablet of white marble, was, on Saturday morning last, placed over the monument of Handel, in Westminster-Abbey:. His Most Gracious Majesty,. On the 26th and 29th of May,. On the 3d and 5th of June, Sir Watkin Williams Wynne,. And Sir Richard Jebb, Bart. Tasca, from the Opera House, who was so deservedly admired in the late Commemoration of Handel.

The Dettingen Te Deum, with many more of the finest pieces of that great Master, and other eminent Composers, will make one of the morning performances at the Church, which will be rendered as complete in all its parts, as can reasonably be expected out of London, and on which occasion no pains or attention will be spared by the Stewards.

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F All particulars will be advertised in due time. As the Commemoration of Handel has given rise to one of the most splendid musical exhibitions ever seen in this kingdom, the reader will be pleased to see recorded the particular circumstances that first led to its commencement.

In a conversation which took place in the beginning of the year , between Visc. The death of Handel naturally presented itself to three such enthusiastic admirers of that great master, and it immediately occurred that the next i. The plan was soon afterwards communicated to the managers of the musical fund, who approved it, and promised their assistance. Sir Richard Jebb, Bart. Who, with a readiness that does honour to their feelings of humanity as well as of music, voluntarily undertook the trouble of managing and directing the celebrity.

The design at last coming to the knowledge of the King, it received the sanction of his patronage. The profits of the other days are to be applied solely to the musical fund. Their Majesties, and the royal family, entered the abbey at the East door, and accompanied by the Bishop of Rochester, as Dean of Westminster, went to the Poets Corner, to view the monument of Handel; after which, preceded by the prebendaries and other members of the church, they entered the choir, and walking down it in procession, ascended the royal gallery, when the entertainment of the morning immediately commenced.

The upper apartments, on the right hand of the throne, were appropriated to the lords and gents. Of the houshold [ sic ] in waiting; beneath whom sat, in purple robes, the Abp of Canterbury, and bishops. Below these were seated various persons of distinction. The box under the prebendaries contained a bevy of beauties.

The area was allotted to subscribers, but not sufficient to contain, by many hundreds, the number of persons to whom tickets had been issued. In the galleries, the parties were agreeably blended. The building, when filled, which it was most completely, was one of the most beautiful spectacles that a large assembly ever exhibited—And what must be a kind of epoch in the art, because it establishes attainments never before experienced, nor indeed thought possible, the deviations from time and tune, though in such a multitudinous band as five hundred and fifteen , were not once perceivable.

The band in the orchestra was composed of performers, viz. Green, designed for Canterbury cathedral , and his manner of conducting the orchestra, is above panegyric. The band was ably led by Mr. Arnold, with that skill and taste, for which he is so justly admired. The vocal performers acquitted themselves with much credit. The dispositions of the throne, the orchestra, ornaments, all so exactly harmonizing with the tone of the cathedral, were imagined in a taste of the cathedral, were imagined in a taste at once both curious and correct. Yet still our mind could not help a vain wish, that the object had been less fleeting.

The Prince of Wales did not honour it with his attendance. The commemoration was under the following direction viz. Sir Richard Jebb, Barts. The concert was composed of the following selection:. Ye sons of Israel Chorus from Joshua. He smote all the first-born Chorus from Israel in Egypt. He gave them hail-stones for vain Chorus from Israel in Egypt. Anthem—My Heart is inditing. Such general satisfaction was given by this uncommon exhibition, that a fourth performance was particularly ordered by his Majesty, and a fifth the Oratorio of the Messiah was commanded by the Queen.

Various reports of the receipts at the Abbey and Pantheon having gone abroad: To this must be added a present of l. At the Commemoration of Handel, p. Total receipt, 11, guineas. Total amount of the produce, almost 13, Aside from the Coronation ceremony itself, a day-long programme of official events spanned most of May The Coronation was the first to see such a programme implemented, but was nearly twice as long, and, building on similar developments in , it was a very public spectacle; Sir Roy Strong argues that the month-long festivities were designed to "recapture the confidence of the nation" following the abdication crisis.

On May 20 and 21, the King and Queen inspected fleets and visited flagships, while, on May 22, the Queen visited Hyde Park to inspect St John's ambulances and then drove through another area in North London. The King marked the occasion of his coronation by conferring honours on a select group of his subjects; in all, thirteen peerages and seven baronetcies were created, while appointments were made to the Privy Council and to the Orders of the Garter, Thistle, Bath, Merit, Star of India, St Michael and St George and the Royal Victorian Order.

The Royal Mint issued two special coin sets comprising the coinage for that year and commemorative issues. Additionally, over , Coronation crowns were issued, plus over 26, at proof grade. Another artist, Edmund Dulac , also submitted two plans. The King accepted Dulac's and they were printed in brown with a hint of violet the day after the Coronation. The streets along the procession route were crowded with people, with women estimated by one newspaper to outnumber men two-to-one.

In all, 20, police officers were deployed to line the route and keep the crowds calm and, apart from a "dense crush" in Trafalgar Square, which the police dispersed, there were few problems with managing the public in London. The National Archives released photographs of celebrations for the Coronation from across the British Empire where various commemorations were held.

These included military parades, athletics events and religious services, and the gallery below shows examples of these commemorative events: The coronation was capitalised on by manufacturers as a means of selling commemorative material. Recordings of the service were put up for sale, while glassware and pottery were also made to commemorate the event. The final coronation event was the Review of the Fleet , held on 20 May at Spithead off the coast at Portsmouth.

The largest assembly of warships since the coronation review of , it has been described by military historian Hedley Paul Willmott as "the last parade of the Royal Navy as the world's greatest and most prodigious navy". Ten British battleships and battlecruisers were present, and for the first time at a coronation review, four aircraft carriers.

A large complement of British merchant ships ranging from ocean liners to paddle steamers were also present. By tradition, foreign navies were invited to send a single warship each to the review and seventeen were present. Also present were the formidable looking German " pocket battleship ", Admiral Graf Spee , the Greek cruiser, Georgios Averof and the Japanese heavy cruiser , Ashigara.

Following the review, in which the King and Queen on the royal yacht passed along seven lines of moored ships, there was a flypast by the Fleet Air Arm , however a planned second pass had to be abandoned because of the misty weather. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Coronation of the British monarch.

List of participants in the coronation processions of King George VI. Bearers of the Regalia Regalia Bearer Ref. Archbishop in War and Crisis, , pp. Archbishop in War and Crisis , , pp. Retrieved 26 May Britain, — , p. Retrieved 5 October Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey.

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The King and Queen in their coronation robes. Westminster Abbey , London, England. King's Regalia St Edward's Staff. Sceptre with the Cross. The Duke of Somerset. The Earl of Cork and Orrery. The Marquess of Zetland. Sceptre with the Dove. The Duke of Richmond and Gordon. The Duke of Sutherland. The Marquess of Salisbury. The Earl of Haddington. The Duke of Rutland.

Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth

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