Maude V. White in Medstügan, Sweden - the 1880's

from Friends and Memories, pages 283-84:

They passed through Medstügan one day, and a tiny little woman belonging to the company came to the cottage where DD. [Miss Edith Balfour] and I were staying. We were in the garden, and she saw one of the guitars lying on a bench near us. She picked it up eagerly and brought it to us.

“Play, play! ” she said in Swedish.

I took it up and said to DD., “Let us sing her that little German Volkslied, ‘Verlassen, Verlassen.’”

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Maude V. White, Friends and Memories (London, 1914), p. 283-4. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1452266016739 accessed: 8 October, 2024

location of experience: Medstügan, Sweden

Listeners

Maude V. White
Composer
1855-1937

Listening to

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Unspecified German Volkslied performed by Miss Edith Balfour, Maude V. White

Experience Information

Date/Time the 1880's
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, in private, outdoors

Originally submitted by Gorwel Owen on Fri, 08 Jan 2016 15:13:37 +0000
Approved on Sun, 16 Oct 2016 08:01:55 +0100