22 November 1683
          Event Information
          
            
              
            
          
        
        Theatre:
            Musical Society          
          Theatrical Season:
            1682-1683          
          Volume:
            1          
          Comments:
            The program was published in 1684: A Musical Entertainment Perform'd on November XXII. 1683, It Being the Festival of St Cecilia, a great Patroness of Music; Whose Memory is Annually Honour'd by a public Feast made on that Day by the Masters and Lovers of Music, as well in England as in Foreign Parts.  [Henry Purcell signed the Preface: To the Gentlemen of the Musical Society, and particularly the Stewards.]  An advertisement in Vinculum Societatis, 1691, states that Christopher Fishburn composed the verse