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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "The Town Airs"/1)') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=150, performancetitle=100), ranker=wordcount
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20 January 1795
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Town
Before You
Afterpiece Title:
Mago and Dago
227
27 January 1795
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Town
Before You
Afterpiece Title:
Mago and Dago
228
06 April 1795
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Rage
Afterpiece Title:
Windsor Castle 1
Afterpiece Title:
Windsor Castle 2
Song:
Part I: concludes with ancient
British
Airs
-;
Chorus
of Bards-, accompanied on
the
Harp by
Jones
229
08 June 1797
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Country Girl
Afterpiece Title:
The
Purse
Afterpiece Title:
The
Wandering Jew
Song:
End II:
Sweet Lillies of
the
Valley
-Dignum (composed by
Hook
); End III:
The
Sailor's Journal
-Dignum (composed by
Dibdin
); End IV:
The
Town
and Country
-Dignum (written by
Morris
); End I 3rd piece:
Sally in our Alley
-Dignum
230
10 August 1797
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
A Bold Stroke For A Wife
Afterpiece Title:
The
Follies of a Day
Song:
Between:
Little Taffline
-Mrs Bland;
The
Town
Crier
(composed by
Dibdin
)-Suett; End:
An Old Woman of Eighty
-Munden
231
09 January 1798
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Semiramide
Dance:
As17980102
Music:
In opera:
the
favourite air of
Guglielmi
-Mme Banti; accompanied on
the
violin-Viotti
232
08 June 1798
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Child Of Nature
Afterpiece Title:
The
Critic
Afterpiece Title:
The
Shipwreck
Song:
End II 1st piece:
I never lov'd any dear Mary but you
-Dignum (composed by
Hook
); End 1st piece:
The
Fight off Camperdown
-Dignum; End I 2nd piece:
The
Town
and Country
-Dignum (composed [i.e. words] by
Capt. Morris
); End 2nd piece: an Answer to
the
above,
Country and
Town
-Dignum
233
04 May 1799
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Tempest; Or,
The
Enchanted Island
Afterpiece Title:
Bon Ton
Song:
Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Dignum, Danby, Brown, Mrs Bland, Miss Menage, Master Hea
the
r, Miss Jackson; End II:
Jerry Sneak in his Glory
-Roberts; End IV:
The
Town
Crier
-Suett; End:
As burns
the
charger
(from
Robin Hood
)-Sedgwick; End I afterpiece:
At
the
peaceful Midnight Hour
(from
The
Castle of Andalusia
)-Sedgwick
Opera:
V: Masque of
Neptune and Amphitrite
. Neptune-Caulfield; Amphitrite-Miss Wentworth
234
07 May 1799
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Castle-spectre
Afterpiece Title:
The
Prisoner
Song:
End:
The
re
the
Silver'd Waters roam
-Sedgwick;
The
Town
Crier
-Suett
Entertainment:
A Variety of
Imitations
-Caulfield as originally given by him in
Sylvester Daggerwood
235
18 May 1799
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Iron Chest
Afterpiece Title:
Ca
the
rine and Petruchio
Afterpiece Title:
Tell Truth and Shame
the
Devil
Song:
End:
Mad Tom
-Betts (1st appearance on
the
stage);
Young William
-Incledon;
The
Golden Days
-Munden;
The
Tight Little Island
-
Town
send;
The
Wind blew fresh and fair
-
Town
send
Music:
End I 1st piece:
Concerto Clarionet
-Orsato (of
the
The
atre Royal Venice
; 1st appearance in this Metropolis); a duetto solo by means of
the
Pression and Repercussion of
the
Air-Orsato This his curious Discovery has received
the
greatest Applause in most of
the
Courts
236
07 April 1778
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Cymon
Afterpiece Title:
All
the
World's a Stage
Song:
Several new
airs
(never performed) by
Michael Arne
-for
the
characters of
Cymon
and
Sylvia
, on this occasion
237
15 June 1780
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Summer Amusement
Afterpiece Title:
The
Apprentice
Dance:
End I:
Dance
-Master and Miss Byrne
Music:
Mainpiece:
The
Overture
-; new Musick composed by
Dr Arnold
-
Song:
with an additional
air
-Wilson; [
Public Advertiser
, 26 June:
In
the
golden barge we ride
-[This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances]
238
23 February 1789
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
odosius; Or,
The
Force Of Love
Afterpiece Title:
Bon Ton; or, High Life above St
airs
Song:
End:
The
Noon Tide Air
from
Comus
-Mrs Farrer;
The
Soldier tired of War's Alarms
-Mrs Nathan
Entertainment:
Monologue
. After Singing:
A Monody on
the
Death of
the
late Mr Henderson
(2nd time)-Baker
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