Dame Ethel Mary Smyth in England - between 1875 and 1876
from Impressions That Remained Memoirs, page 106:
One day I went with the Ewings to a Wagner concert. […] Wagner, who was almost unknown in England, had rashly contracted for a series of concerts conducted by himself, which I afterwards heard were a failure financially. My party were all hard up, and we sat so far away from the platform that all I saw was an undersized man with a huge head, apparently in a towering rage from start to finish of the concert; I thought he could hardly refrain from whacking heads right and left instead of merely the desk. No doubt the performance was insufficiently rehearsed and execrable; anyhow I was not as much carried away as I expected.
<< lessDame Ethel Mary Smyth, Impressions That Remained Memoirs (New York City, 1946), p. 106. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1438180091004 accessed: 14 October, 2024
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Wagner concert
written by Richard Wagner |
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Date/Time | between 1875 and 1876 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |