The vocal Parts by Miss Ford, who will play a solo on the
VIOL DI GAMBO
Overture
Non fai qual pena fia. Song. Concerti Traversa by Sen. G. Sweet
Bird. Song. Solo, Viol di Gambo. Concerto Violoncello, Sen.
Pasqualini. Hush ye pretty warbling Choir. Song. Solo Violin, Mr
Pinto. Duetto, Caro Spiegar Voirei.
Lesson on the Guittar, and (by particular Desire) the 104th Psalm.
FULL PIECE
Tickets to be had.........
To begin at Seven o’Clock.
Her fifth and last concert took place on Tuesday, 22nd April, when,
besides taking the “vocal parts,” she played a solo and accompanied
herself in a song (“Oh! Liberty thou choicest treasure”) on the Viola
di Gambo, also performing “a lesson on the guittar” and singing “a Hymn
set by herself,” which she accompanied on the lute.
These five concerts completed the series announced and for the rest of
that year Ann Ford abstained from further appearances on the concert
platform. During the interval, she occupied herself in addressing a
brilliant little pamphlet to her former lover, which was intended
to contradict the scandalous imputations which were being noised
abroad concerning her friendship with the married man. This letter
was published in 1761, under the title of “A Letter from Miss F..d
to a person of distinction.” The pathetic manner in which she chides
his lordship for his attempt to overthrow her virtue, and her gentle
despair at his sudden unfriendliness towards her, reads more like the
attempt of a clever woman to raise public sympathy on her behalf rather
than genuine dejection. The “person of distinction” whom she addressed
replied to her in a somewhat derisive letter, in which he endeavours
to reveal Miss Ford’s _pique_ to arise from the fact, that he and
his spouse did not support her subscription concerts handsomely. The
publication of such letters certainly did neither party good, though
from the point of view of literary excellence, Ann Ford surpassed her
lordly lover.
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