excerpt from 'The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner' pp. 211 (142 words)
excerpt from 'The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner' pp. 211 (142 words)
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People came to the shop, then I got distracted into pruning roses, and then I listened to Corona Spinea, and then toothache got considerably worse. It was lovely to hear a finished production of Corona - though I daresay those scrambled performances under Terry were nearer the original truth. But this would have satisfied and interested Taverner - both. The brilliance of the counter-tenors, the groping lower basses, the bagpipe opening of the Sanctus, and that majestic slow climb from the lowest to the highest voices in the the 3rd Agnus. It was very strange to think, as I listened, that I had had a hand in its resurrection: and sad, in a way, that there is never on the BBC a flick of acknowledgement to T.C.M. [Tudor Church Music] As it can't be copyright, they are not obliged to... |
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