Vera Brittain et al. in Uppingham School - July, 1914
from Letter from Roland Leighton to Vera Brittain, 3 June 1915, page 117:
April, May, June - my third month out here. I wonder if I shall still be Somewhere in Flanders when July comes, and memories of Speech Day 1914, and all that I had hoped of Oxford. Do you remember the Sunday that we walked up and down Fairfield Garden together and wouldn’t come in out of the rain? And I couldn’t keep the tears out of my eyes afterwards when Sterndale-Bennett played Karg Elert’s Clair de Lune in the chapel.You were sitting at the back near the door and I couldn’t see you without looking round, I remember. It all seems so very far away now. I sometimes think I must have … more >>
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Letter from Roland Leighton to Vera Brittain, 3 June 1915. In A. G. Bishop and Mark Bostridge (ed.), Letters from a lost generation : First World War letters of Vera Brittain and four friends - Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow (:London, 1999), p. 117. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1400254513042 accessed: 11 October, 2024
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Clair de Lune
written by Karg-Elert, Sigfrid, 1877-1933 |
performed by Robert Sterndale-Bennett |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | July, 1914 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Notes
Roland was serving on the Western Front with 4th Battalion The Norfolk Regiment.
Originally submitted by hgb3 on Fri, 16 May 2014 16:35:13 +0100