excerpt from 'Letters of the Evans-Pughe family' (166 words)
excerpt from 'Letters of the Evans-Pughe family' (166 words)
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TO: The Rev. J and Mrs. Evans-Pughe, Tovil Vicarage, Maidstone, Kent FROM: John Evans-Pughe, ON ACTIVE SERVICE, Cairo, Egypt, 1407… DATE: Thur 16th [month?] 1947 …I spent from 11.30 – 1.00 to-day queueing for tickets at the Cairo Opera House but all in vain – it shut at 1.00 when I was about 5 places from the front… I went to the Symphony concert with my A.T.S friend on the 9th, it was very good: I’m going to try to get a copy of the Bach Concerto in E – I like it very much. I’m not sure whether I sent you the other programme before: the best parts of it were Cesar Franck and the Chausson – the rest of the stuff was a bit “Picassoish” in my opinion. The songs by Schiffer and Petry were completely atonal - no key at all: the two efforts by Dr. Hickman however were very very good in contrast to the others… |
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