Benjamin Britten in London - 23 July, 1931
from Diary of Benjamin Britten, July 23 1931, page 79:
I practise Vla. & pack a bit in morning; I can’t go to practise yet as my foot is still rather bad. I go to Victoria to take back Adrian Glynde after tea, only have to bus all the way. Listen to Contemporary Music concert, broadcast in evening. v. Schönbergian Suite op. 18 of Knipper; uninteresting. Some vague weird Jap. songs of Maklakievicz. An extraordinary unacc. Choral “Ame du peine” of Hare; best of all 3 choruses of Wellesz. Quite well sung by Wireless Singers. Ended by a Sinfonietta, of Halffter, amusing tho’ over-long.
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Benjamin Britten, Diary of Benjamin Britten, July 23 1931. In John Evans (ed.), Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938 (:London, 2009), p. 79. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1413718737566 accessed: 1 September, 2024
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Date/Time | 23 July, 1931 |
Medium | broadcast |
Listening Environment | indoors |
Originally submitted by Simon Brown on Sun, 19 Oct 2014 12:38:57 +0100