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Re: The Kid from Brooklyn
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Alan Moss <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 18 Nov 2000 10:16:59 -0000
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Walter Meyer wrote:

>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.

Sorry, slip of the mouse.  That should of course read "first London
performance".  Thanks.

Alan Moss

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