And here, a notice quoted from Faulkner's Journal.

"This day will be performed Mr. Handel's new grand sacred Oratorio, called the Messiah. Doors will be opened at eleven, and and the performance begin at twelve. The Stewards of the Charitable Music Society request the favour of the ladies not to come with hoops this day to the Music Hall. The gentlemen are desired to come without their swords." (13 April 1742)

-- page 198, "Music and the Drama", no byline and no identified journalist author, from The Canadian Monthly and National Review, vol. 7, no. 2, February 1875.

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