The Music Community of Victorian Worcester
Written by Albert Edward Bibbs
On my removal to London in 1912 I joined the Hendon Parish Choir, where they gave some excellent services. The organist, Mr. W. Rimmer last year completed his sixty third year as an organist, having started at the age of ten in Southport.
Glee singing had always an attraction for me, and for a number of years I followed this in Worcester, in association with the late Mr. Chris Fleet, and Mr. Harry and George Large, and our services were a good deal in request in City and County.
Outside personal participation in Music was the enjoyment derived from the Subscription Concerts organized by Mr. E.J. Spark, who engaged the service of all the most famous singers and players of the day: the present generation has nothing to offer in the same way.
Looking back over a long life, I suppose there is nothing which has contributed so much to my happiness as the active share I took in music, and I think this must be a common experience to everyone who has done likewise, which are begun and continued in its blessed atmosphere.
"We are the Music Makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams."
These memories I am writing in far away Vancouver, British Columbia, to which city I came in August 1932, to be near my two sons, both of whom hold responsible positions here. The change was a wise one, for it is impossible to imagine a more glorious country: with its splendid waterways, its forests and magnificent mountains, with a temperature resembling that of Devonshire. In summertime there is almost continuous sunshine, whilst the winters are not nearly so severe as those of England.
Written by Albert Edward Bibbs
On my removal to London in 1912 I joined the Hendon Parish Choir, where they gave some excellent services. The organist, Mr. W. Rimmer last year completed his sixty third year as an organist, having started at the age of ten in Southport.Glee singing had always an attraction for me, and for a number of years I followed this in Worcester, in association with the late Mr. Chris Fleet, and Mr. Harry and George Large, and our services were a good deal in request in City and County.
Outside personal participation in Music was the enjoyment derived from the Subscription Concerts organized by Mr. E.J. Spark, who engaged the service of all the most famous singers and players of the day: the present generation has nothing to offer in the same way.
Looking back over a long life, I suppose there is nothing which has contributed so much to my happiness as the active share I took in music, and I think this must be a common experience to everyone who has done likewise, which are begun and continued in its blessed atmosphere."We are the Music Makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams."These memories I am writing in far away Vancouver, British Columbia, to which city I came in August 1932, to be near my two sons, both of whom hold responsible positions here. The change was a wise one, for it is impossible to imagine a more glorious country: with its splendid waterways, its forests and magnificent mountains, with a temperature resembling that of Devonshire. In summertime there is almost continuous sunshine, whilst the winters are not nearly so severe as those of England.
