Sylvia Townsend Warner in England - 12 May, 1952
from The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner, page 188:
I took heart enough to pack Paul's parcel: Lost Summer was in. The singer a Nan Merriman with an extremely wide, dark-coloured vigorous mezzo-soprano - an Amneris voice; and a very good serious method. The music I still cannot assess, for my heart is too much in it. But listening to the 2 river songs I could say, It is justified, I can accept that then, for this music that has come out of it.
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Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Claire Harman (ed.), The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner (:London, 1995), p. 188. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1443008470324 accessed: 6 May, 2024
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Lost Summer
written by Paul Nordoff |
performed by Nan Merriman |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 12 May, 1952 |
| Medium | playback |
Notes
'Lost Summer' is a song-cycle to poems written by STW in summer of 1949.
Originally submitted by Jo Reardon on Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:41:10 +0100
Approved on Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:16:08 +0100