Brian Longman et al. in Royal Festival Hall - the 1960's, in the afternoon
from Southbank Centre Archive:
My abiding memory is of attending the 5.55 pm Wednesday Organ Recitals in the 1960s. I was a teenager, working in the City and I would go straight from the office. What a privilege to hear some of the youngest organists of that decade who were later to become virtuoso recitalists of international renown. I will never forget the now Dame Gillian Weir giving her first RFH recital after taking first prize at the St Albans International Organ Competition. Or sitting almost next to Ralph Downes who designed the RFH organ; or of Dr … more >>
Southbank Centre (ed.), Southbank Centre Archive. In Southbank Centre Archive. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1449743863420 accessed: 29 November, 2024 (Southbank Centre Archive, http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/about-us/history-and-archive/southbank-centre-archive)
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Experience Information
Date/Time | the 1960's, in the afternoon |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |