On the trail of . . . Louis Jullien

January 19, 2021

A Quadrille-in-words, dancing to the beat of a once famous conductor and composer, also being the tale of a concert ticket to one of Jullien’s renowned ‘Concerts Monstres.’  Now that we’re approaching the 209th anniversary of the birth and 161st anniversary of the death of a long-forgotten conductor and composer who was once a household […]

2021 | Uncategorized | Tags: British Army Quadrille, Castle Garden New York, Concert monstre, conductor, Drury Lane Theatre, Great Exhibition Quadrille, Hymn of Universal Harmony, Louis Jullien, Louis-Antoine Jullien, Monster Concert, Pietro il grande, promenade concerts, Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens, Sisteron, Sisteron Basses Alpes