excerpt from 'The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner' pp. 15 (118 words)

excerpt from 'The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner' pp. 15 (118 words)

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The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Solomon at the Philharmonic in the evening.  Good performance by the choir.  Beecham conducted by memory, and I hear he conducted the rehearsal by heart also.  Two especially fine choruses, 'Let no rash intruder' - almost Purcellian, & 'draw the tear from hopeless love'.  One amusing example of prudery. Solomon should remark in a brisk recitative. 'Arise my fair one, come away. My love admits of no delay'. But Clara Serena sang from a bowdlerised text which gave as the second line: 'In sweet seclusion let us stray.' Immediately followed by 'Let no rash intruder', all about pillows and nightingales.  I was reminded of Parry altering O spare the husband and return the wife into 'restore the wife'

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