in Royal Festival Hall - in the middle of 1965
from Southbank Centre Archive:
It was in the summer of 1965, and I was en-route from Wales for a holiday in Austria with my mother and my gran's brother - a favourite uncle - and we had to stay a night in London because of an early flight from Manston, of all places. We asked at the hotel for tickets to whatever was on at the Festival Hall and duly turned up. We sat at the front of the circle and, to my great delight as I had sung in 'Saint Nicholas' the previous winter, the concert was conducted by Benjamin Britten himself. I will always remember it. Rostropovich played the cello concerto. One of my life's great moments.
Southbank Centre (ed.), Southbank Centre Archive. In Southbank Centre Archive. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1449744511868 accessed: 1 September, 2024 (Southbank Centre Archive, http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/about-us/history-and-archive/southbank-centre-archive)
Listening to
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Cello Concerto
written by Benjamin Britten |
performed by Benjamin Britten, Mstislav Rostropovich |
Experience Information
Date/Time | in the middle of 1965 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |