Benjamin Britten et al. in Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate - 4 February, 1935
from Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938, page 247:
Grace Williams come to dinner at Burleigh House where I am staying, & after we both go to the Mercury Theatre to the Iris Lemare concert. Orch. Nothing of much interest, except a Suite of Grace, which has some good things in - esp. 1st & 2nd mov, & a ballet on an amusing subject - Great Agrippa by Elizabeth Maconchy - some doleful arrangements of forgotten dirges, & a long clumsy immature, work of Elizabeth Lutyens finishes the programme.*
John Evans (ed.), Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938 (:London, 2009), p. 247. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1438270424570 accessed: 21 November, 2024
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written by Betty Lutyens |
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Suite for chamber orchestra
written by Grace Williams |
performed by Iris Lemare |
Great Agrippa, ballet for fourteen instruments and percussion
written by Betty Lutyens |
performed by Iris Lemare |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 4 February, 1935 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
*Williams Suite for chamber orchestra; Maconchy Great Agrippa, ballet for fourteen instruments and percussion (1933).