Beatrice Harrison's mother in USA - the 1910's

from The Cello and the Nightingales- The autobiography of Beatrice Harrison, page 102:

(As Mother, writing home to Monica who was training as a singer, said, ‘We heard Melba practising scales and arpeggios and trills last evening…her art is very fine, her glissandos are perfectly exquisite and her attack is magnificent but her poor maid has rather a trying time, I never saw anyone get quite so suddenly as Madame M…’)
cite as

Beatrice Harrison, and Patricia Cleveland-Peck (ed.), The Cello and the Nightingales- The autobiography of Beatrice Harrison (1985), p. 102. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1431987810976 accessed: 28 March, 2024

location of experience: USA

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Experience Information

Date/Time the 1910's
Medium live

Originally submitted by tlisboa on Mon, 18 May 2015 23:23:31 +0100
Approved on Mon, 11 Jan 2016 18:39:24 +0000