Denis Matthews in Prinzregenten, Munich - 1936

from In Pursuit of Music, pages 57-58:

[…] it was with excited anticipation that I set out in 1936 to chaperon my mother and three other ladies on a holiday in Germany, where all the crowded impressions of Rhine castles, the Black Forest, the Bavarian Alps, deckle-edged postcards, beds that seemed all eiderdown, pumpernickel and swastikas everywhere, were to reach a climax in my first Meistersinger at the …   more >>

cite as

Denis Matthews, In Pursuit of Music (London, 1966), p. 57-58. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1477469880482 accessed: 11 October, 2024

location of experience: Prinzregenten, Munich

Listeners

Denis Matthews
Broadcaster, Musicologist, Pianist
1919-1988

Listening to

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The Mastersingers
written by Richard Wagner
performed by Karl Böhm, Torsten Ralf, Wilhelm Rode

Experience Information

Date/Time 1936
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Originally submitted by lcc5 on Wed, 26 Oct 2016 09:18:00 +0100
Approved on Tue, 16 May 2017 14:22:18 +0100