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Re: The Kid from Brooklyn
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Walter Meyer <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:39:48 -0500
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Alan Moss wrote:

>It was the Covent Garden Theatre which on 23 March 1743 saw the first
>performance of 'Messiah'.

I'd thought, and the New Grove seems to confirm, that the first performance
of *Messiah* was in Dublin in April of 1742.

Walter Meyer

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