Plodding Through the Rain
Title:
Plodding Through the Rain
Additional Title:
First Line:
First Line of Chorus:
Creator(s):
- French, Fred
- Concanen, Alfred
Additional Names:
Publication Date:
1865
Instrumentation:
Piano
Voice
Subject:
N/A
WIMA Collections:
Alfred Concanen Collection
ID:
AlCon SL 00-028
Publisher:
Hopwood & Crew
Publication Place:
London
Historical Notes
Comic vocalist, author, and composer Harry Sydney (1825-1870), was associated with the first Oxford Music Hall and later became manager of the Philharmonic. After leaving the Philharmonic, he fulfilled numerous starring engagements in the provinces. He died at the age of forty-five after a short battle with Bright's Disease.
The Variety Stage: A History of the Music Halls from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Charles Douglas Stuart and A.J. Park (1895)