The Pleasures and Vexations of an Amateur Musician who Loved a Grand Crash
Nicholas Spice: John Marsh, 18 May 2000
The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828)
edited by Brian Robins.
Pendragon, 797 pp., $76, December 1998,0 945193 94 7 Show More
edited by Brian Robins.
Pendragon, 797 pp., $76, December 1998,
“... types to their coachmen for delivering them too sharply to Ranelagh Gardens where, according to Horace Walpole, it was the done thing to arrive two hours after the music had finished. If you did get to hear any music, you were quite at liberty to talk through it, and if you got really restless you could simply stroll about. For Marsh, as for other ... ”