Benjamin Britten in Lowestoft - 14 August, 1934
from Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938, page 220:
I attempt to listen to a prom. including La Mer, & 3 Wozzeck extracts but the wireless is impossible.* What I did hear of it was very mediocre (Debussy esp.) What does Wood imagine that Lento means? & similarly the Jeux des Vagues became a funeral march**
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John Evans (ed.), Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938 (:London, 2009), p. 220. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1438171823236 accessed: 30 December, 2024
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Three Wozzeck Fragments
written by Alban Berg |
performed by Wood |
La Mer
written by Claude Debussy |
performed by Wood |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 14 August, 1934 |
| Medium | broadcast |
| Listening Environment | in private, indoors, solitary |
Notes
*Debussy La mer (1903-5); Berg Three Wozzeck Fragments (1924). **'Jeux de vagues', the second of Debussy's 'three symphonic sketches', La mer.
Originally submitted by gkw on Wed, 29 Jul 2015 13:10:23 +0100
Approved on Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:12:05 +0100