Sylvia Townsend Warner in Maiden Newton - 29 March, 1942

from The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner, page 120:

Earlier in the morning V. turned on the wireless into the middle of the sustained B flat of the 9th Symphony.  Seid umschlungen, millionen.  But in the midst of standing there absorbed, a part of my mind could notice that the chorus singers had the tone of people who had spent a lean winter, and coughed oft - though the soloists were all well-buttered enough.

cite as

Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Claire Harman (ed.), The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner (:London, 1995), p. 120. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1442924611815 accessed: 29 March, 2024

location of experience: Maiden Newton

Listeners

Sylvia Townsend Warner
Musicologist, Writer
1893-1978

Listening to

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9th Symphony
written by Beethoven, Beethoven

Experience Information

Date/Time 29 March, 1942
Medium broadcast
Listening Environment in the company of others, in private, indoors

Originally submitted by Jo Reardon on Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:23:32 +0100
Approved on Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:47:29 +0100