in Royal Festival Hall - the 1950's
from Southbank Centre Archive:
Robert Mayer children's concerts. My mother had recently died and I took my 11 year old daughter to the concert. The conductors mother had recently died and the orchestra performed Elgar's Nimrod variation in her memory. I wept silently.
cite as
Southbank Centre (ed.), Southbank Centre Archive. In Southbank Centre Archive. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1444652974190 accessed: 16 April, 2024 (Southbank Centre Archive, http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/about-us/history-and-archive/southbank-centre-archive)
Listening to
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Nimrod
written by Edward Elgar |
performed by Robert Mayer |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | the 1950's |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by Liz Ford on Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:29:34 +0100
Approved on Wed, 09 Dec 2015 16:12:28 +0000