Benjamin Britten in London - 1 June, 1932
from Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938, page 106:
More pt. song after dinner. Also listen to Wireless - Saint-Saëns Carnval des Animaux - and a wonderful, impressive but terribly eerie & scary play "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James.
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John Evans (ed.), Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938 (:London, 2009), p. 106. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1434485207896 accessed: 21 January, 2025
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Le carnaval des animaux
written by Saint-Saens |
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| Date/Time | 1 June, 1932 |
| Medium | broadcast |
| Listening Environment | in private, indoors, solitary |
Originally submitted by gkw on Tue, 16 Jun 2015 21:06:47 +0100
Approved on Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:41:55 +0100