Cessation of The Concerts
The termination of the society’s concert series in 1820 was motivated by several factors. By 1815 musical fashions in Charleston were changing and enthusiasm for the society’s concerts, a conspicuous vestige of the Age of Enlightenment, was in decline. In 1817 the Charleston Theatre company initiated a touring circuit that disrupted the society’s long-standing practice of sharing musicians with the local theater. On a number of occasions in the ensuing seasons, the St. Cecilia Society’s offered balls as last-minute substitutes for concerts when a sufficient number of musicians could not be procured. Finally, the Panic of 1819 unraveled the local economy and induced the society to curtail its activities. After three increasingly meager seasons, the society held its last regular concert in the spring of 1820 and in subsequent years presented a greatly reduced number of balls.
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