> From: "Karen Mercedes" <mercedes@access.digex.net>
>
> Not sure what era you're describing, but by the late 19th Century, both
> Birmingham and Manchester (with the Halle Orchestra) the had become nearly as
> important as musical performance and education centres in the UK.
>
> Karen Mercedes
Perhaps, but were the Birmingham and Manchester groups really any better
than a half-dozen provincial German orchestras which had been going on
for decades before the English groups got started? And, after all, I
think the original question was for the 90 to 100 years before 1880.
"T"
tlewis@praline.no.Neosoft.com
Terrance L. Lewis, PhD
History Program, Social Science Dept.
Southern University at New Orleans