Vera Brittain in Oxford - 1 May, 1915, 04:00 AM
from Letter from Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton, 1 May 1915, page 95:
I was up at 3.45 this morning for the famous May Morning ceremony ... as the clock struck four all the people turned towards the tower & became absolutely silent. Then immediately after, as the sun was rising, the choristers on the top of Magdalen tower sang the May Morning Latin hymn, turning towards the sun ... I could quite easily have wept at the beauty & pain of it. I couldn’t help thinking how different everything is from what we pictured it would be, & how you had meant to be here, & how you would have loved it if you had been...
cite as
Letter from Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton, 1 May 1915. In A. G. Bishop and Mark Bostridge (ed.), Letters from a lost generation : First World War letters of Vera Brittain and four friends - Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow (:London, 1999), p. 95. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1399990653596 accessed: 25 November, 2024
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Listening to
hide composers| May Morning Latin hymn |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 1 May, 1915, 04:00 AM |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors |
Notes
Roland was serving on the Western Front with 4th Battalion, The Norfolk Regiment.
Originally submitted by hgb3 on Tue, 13 May 2014 15:17:34 +0100