Frank Goss in London - between 1908, 03:00 PM and some day 04:30 PM
from My Boyhood at the turn of the century, pages 209-210:
As a teacher of the pianoforte she [Auntie Grace] may have been very good but as an aunt to a small nephew she was a thin, cold figure of almost inhuman impersonality. Her first requirements in her piano tuition was that I must leave the pedals strictly alone, thus countering any exaltation I may have felt in surrounding my inefficiencies in a splendid volume of uncritical noise. Her second stricture was that I could only learn to play if I practiced over and over … more >>
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Frank Goss, My Boyhood at the turn of the century. In Brunel University Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiographies, number 2:331, p. 209-210. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1535650988536 accessed: 16 October, 2024
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'Overture to William Tell'
written by Rossini |
performed by Frank Goss |
'Blumenlied' | performed by Frank Goss |
Experience Information
Date/Time | between 1908, 03:00 PM and some day 04:30 PM |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in private, indoors, solitary |
Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:43:09 +0100
Approved on Mon, 29 Oct 2018 18:06:19 +0000