Schoolfriends of Denis Matthews in Warwick School, Warwick - in the beginning of the 1930's

from In Pursuit of Music, page 27:

Meanwhile [it was] decided that once I had passed my School Certificate I should be allowed a certain amount of time off for music during school hours. This was unprecedented, and the favouritism was resented by one or two of my class-mates, who considered any music short of Henry Hall or Harry Roy, the ‘pop’ band-leaders of the day, as a mad …   more >>

cite as

Denis Matthews, In Pursuit of Music (London, 1966), p. 27. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1476997776288 accessed: 12 December, 2024

location of experience: Warwick School, Warwick

Listeners

Listening to

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Piano music
written by Johann Sebastian Bach, Beethoven
performed by Denis Matthews

Experience Information

Date/Time in the beginning of the 1930's
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, in private, indoors

Originally submitted by lcc5 on Thu, 20 Oct 2016 22:09:36 +0100
Approved on Tue, 16 May 2017 11:20:17 +0100