MUSICIANS AND POLITICS
Musicians differ in (heir political opinions as much as any other class of the community.,but as it rule they are con-, tent to be onlookers rather than practical politicians. Some of those who have acted otherwise have suffered considerably for their convictions. Wagner's experience >« that regard is well know/i.. In. cur own country Edward Gibbons, .1, brother of the fa/nous. Or-. Undo GsKbons, who was successively organist at Bristol and Exeter Cathedrals until Cromwell and his followers destroyed the organs in 1643, was. long suspected to he a supporter of Charles I, mid eventually it was discovered that he had .subscribed £I.OOO to the king s cause. For this, although he was over eighty years old, he was turned out of house and home, and all his property confiscated to the Commonwealth government.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 7 August 1928, Page 2
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