1818
A Sermon With Music
This year was a fundraising sermon with musical performances, to raise money for the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.
At the 1818 fundraising sermon, a Te Deum by Charles John Smyth was performed. Smyth was a Minor Canon at the Cathedral and member of the Cathedral Choir from 1795 – 1824. Smyth was known to be an unusual character who, according to his pupil and later Director of the Festival, Edward Taylor was “equally remarkable for his eccentricity and his musical learning”.
Also taking place in Norwich this year:
The Assembly House held an exhibition of waxworks from Madame Tussaud’s including princes, queens, princesses, heroes, statesmen, poets and divines.