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About Music Hall (7897 words) |
 | This species of musical treadmill is continued until the exhausted singer has sung four songs, when (if he sternly refuses to sing any more) he is set free, and allowed to exercise, over other Music Halls, the improving influence of his talent. |
 | The music was well rendered by a thoroughly competent company, night after night, for a long period, so that by the time the opera attracted the tardy attention of the two principal opera managers at Her MajestyÂ’s Theatre in the Haymarket and Covent Garden Theatre, the tunes most popular were being |
 | The rise and progreas of the London music halls naturally excited a good deal of attention and jealousy on the part of the regular theatres, and this was increased when the first Great Variety Theatre was opened in Leicester Square. |
| 1866 in music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (183 words) |
 | See also: 1865 in music, other events of 1866, 1867 in music and the list of 'years in music'. |
 | Sir William Sterndale Bennett becomes Principal of the British Royal Academy of Music. |
 | Bedrich Smetana's opera Prodana Nevesta (The Bartered Bride) debuts in Prague at the Provisional Theater (May 30) |