The Music of the Future Size:M: 60 x 45cm Richard Sheridan leading the forces

Richard Sheridan leading the forces of the professionals against the amateurs of the Pic Nic Society

Jimmy Nicholson

Hawthorn coming first in a Maserati and Schell coming second in a Vanwall

'Scene From The American Tempest'

Behind them stretches the coastline revealed by the low tide

The Music of the Future Size:M: 60 x 45cm Richard Sheridan leading the forcesThe Music of the Future, 1887. Wagner's conception of opera as a unification of musical, poetic and scenic elements, which revolutionised the 19th century conception of the genre, obviously did not always appeal to the ears of the new middle classes. From Punch, or the London Charivari, May 28, 1887.