Richard Temple Savage in Norwich - in the middle of 1936
from A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician, page 40:
The LPO played for various festivals before the war and I particularly enjoyed the one in Norwich in the summer of 1936. The town in delightful, the weather was good and with various concerts at different times and places throughout the day the atmosphere was sociable and pleasant. ... Astra Desmond, one of the most musically intelligent of the oratorio singers of her day. She was the soloist in the first performance of Vaughan Williams' "Five Tudor Portraits", conducted by Heathcote Statham. The words are by the Elizabethan poet, Thomas Skelton, and it is strange to think that some of them … more >>
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Richard Temple Savage, A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician (Newton Abbot, 1988), p. 40. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1426871266847 accessed: 1 September, 2024
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Richard Temple Savage
1909-
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Five Tudor Portraits
written by Ralph Vaughan Williams |
performed by Astra Desmond, Heathcote Statham, unnamed baritone, London Philharmonic Orchestra |
Experience Information
Date/Time | in the middle of 1936 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by iepearson on Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:07:46 +0000
Approved on Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:29:15 +0000