Virginia Woolf in London - 20 April, 1920
from The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.2, 1920-1924, page 32:
To the Bach choir last night; but one of our failures. Is it the weather? I'd made out on waking, such a perfect day; & one by one my events missed fire. Such a good morning's writing I'd planned, & wasted the cream of my brain on the telephone. Then the weather; great bouncing gusts all set about with rain soaking one; buses crowded; left typewriting paper in the bus; a long time waiting at the Club - then Bach unaccompanied isn't easy - though at last (after L. had gone home) I was swept up to the heights by a song. Anna Magdalena's song. I walked a few steps beyond … more >>
Virginia Woolf, and Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie (ed.), The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.2, 1920-1924 (:London, 1978), p. 32. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1444399651558 accessed: 16 April, 2024
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| Date/Time | 20 April, 1920 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |