Laurie Lee in Zamora - in the middle of 1935
from As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, pages 54-56:
‘Now for the danze! ’ cried Artur. Night had fallen already, and the boys had a job at the local dance-hall.
…As we went down the narrow cobble-stepped streets, Rudi struck up on his accordion, playing wild banshee scales designed to advertise the dance and to summon the youth of the town…
The dance-hall was a kind of brokendown warehouse propped up on the river bank, just a bare wooden shack dressed with a few old chairs and some primitive decorations…
The band tuned up noisily, then Artur swayed to his feet and announced a pasodoble. The barriers fell at … more >>
cite as
Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Harmondsworth, 1974), p. 54-56. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1404405139236 accessed: 4 November, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composerspasodoble | performed by German buskers |
Experience Information
Date/Time | in the middle of 1935 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by hgb3 on Thu, 03 Jul 2014 17:32:19 +0100