Benjamin Britten in Queen's Hall - 30 September, 1933
from Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938, page 150:
Mangeot brings me back for a hurried dinner, after which I meet Barbara at Q. Hall for Prom (tickets from B.B.C.). Thoroughly light & vulgar 1st half, which I thoroughly enjoy - selec. from Mignon, Carmen, Rigol. Pagliacci, Walton's Façade, & above all Strauss's wonderful, moving Don Quixote, excellent played by L. Kennedy, but v. scrappily by orch. 2nd half we only stuck a garish arr. of Handel Org. Conc. played (when one could hear him) by Stanley Marchant.
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John Evans (ed.), Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938 (:London, 2009), p. 150. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1437497828370 accessed: 23 April, 2024
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Carmen
written by Georges Bizet |
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Façade
written by Sir William Walton |
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Mignon
written by Ambroise Thomas |
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Pagliacci
written by Ruggero Leoncavallo |
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Rigoletto
written by Guiseppe Verdi, Giuseppe Verdi |
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Organ Concerto
written by George Frideric Handel, Ned Rorem |
performed by Stanley Marchant |
Don Quixote
written by Richard Strauss |
performed by L. Kenneddy |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 30 September, 1933 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by gkw on Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:57:08 +0100
Approved on Mon, 26 Sep 2016 22:55:42 +0100