Handel and the Bank of England
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Handel and the Bank of England
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Re: Handel and the Bank of England
#2I never thought of financial logs as an angle for history, very interesting.
Funny to think that in the future this might be done with the default-public Venmo transaction feeds. "Here we see Handel paid his friend with the message ";)". The meaning is unknown."
Re: Handel and the Bank of England
#3Handel's 'Alcina', which he wrote in 1735 while slowly drawing down the cash he'd got by selling his annuities, is on at Glyndebourne next year:
https://www.glyndebourne.com/events/alcina/
I gave this recording from Vienna a listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VdHwrLgjxI
You'd probably have to pay me £200 to sit through the whole thing.