Virginia Woolf in London - 18 May, 1920
from The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.2, 1920-1924, page 39:
Gordon Square begins again & like a snake renews its skin outworn - that's the nearest I can come to a quotation...There's an open door to be passed first, though, & Sophie inside, & one who beneath a weight of flesh & bone proved to have the body of Annie Chart in her. Nessa is right at the top...Then, talk talk; & as we were despatching the superficial & reaching the easy-intimate, I had to tear off, in the rain, to Wigmore Hall. Sat between Oliver & Saxon; & these musical people dont listen as I do, but critically, superciliously, without programmes.
Virginia Woolf, and Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie (ed.), The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.2, 1920-1924 (:London, 1978), p. 39. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1444400147503 accessed: 24 November, 2024
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written by Antonín Dvorák, César Franck, Maurice Ravel |
performed by Bohemian String Quartet, Fanny Davies |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 18 May, 1920 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |