Welcome to The Listening Experience Database

This is an open and freely searchable database that brings together a mass of data about people’s experiences of listening to music of all kinds, in any historical period and any culture.

There are currently 10911 listening experiences in the database, with 213 more experiences awaiting approval.

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Methodist preachers et al. in Leeds - between 1929 and 1960

"Mr. Brindley and Mr. Len Denison were my colleagues during my time as Steward (at Woodhouse Carr Methodist Church], and very good colleagues they were, and we got along like a “house on fire”. Mr. Brindley (as Choir Master and Organist) was often encouraged [...]"
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Jacqueline Kennedy - 9 June, 1968

"Dear Lennie ...Everyone has gone to bed but I just want to stay up by myself – to think about so many things – and about today... ...When your Mahler started to fill (but that is the wrong word – because it was more this sensitive trembling) the [...]"
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