Richard Church in In a guest house in Folkestone
from The Golden Sovereign, page 74:
The Challen pianoforte was surprisingly mellow. When Father and I came down to breakfast on our first morning, Maudie was practising scales. She did not stop when I entered the front room … I saw the left side of her face in shadow, and that, with her brooding frown of concentration over the busy hands, made her yet another person whom I must get to know, a newer stimulant to my reviving emotions.
She turned her head and smiled at me, as though to challenge any … more >>
cite as
Richard Church, The Golden Sovereign (London, 1957), p. 74. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1445893717637 accessed: 15 October, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composersPractising scales | performed by Maudie |
Experience Information
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in private, indoors, solitary |
Notes
As a teenager, Richard Church listens to a girl practising scales on the piano
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Mon, 26 Oct 2015 21:08:38 +0000
Approved on Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:02:27 +0000