HANDEL CALLING CARDS
Illustration: John Rocque's Map of London in 1746
Handel expert Suzanne Aspden tramps the streets of London with a handful of Handel Calling Cards - uncovering the places associated with Handel in the capital and the music he wrote there.
Click on the icons to hear the Calling Card.
- 1. Handel House (Brook St) – St George’s (Hanover Square)
- 2. Burlington House (Royal Academy)
- 3. King’s Theatre (on the Haymarket)
- 4. St James’s Palace (on Pall Mall)
- 5. Privy Stairs by the River Thames (in Whitehall)
- 6. Vauxhall Gardens
- 7. Hickford’s Concert Rooms (Brewer Street in Soho)
- 8. Lincoln’s Inn Fields
- 9. J.C. Smith’s House (Carlisle Street in Soho)
- 10. Westminster Abbey
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