Benjamin Britten in Lowestoft - 26 January, 1934
from Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938, page 197:
Listen to a bit of a Contemporary concert from B.B.C. Suite 'The Nose' by Shostakovitch.* Very amusing & exhilerating - but I shouldn't be surprised if it were found to be uneventful & even conventional with all the glitter taken off - this, especially the Entre Acts.
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John Evans (ed.), Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938 (:London, 2009), p. 197. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1437905871770 accessed: 12 December, 2024
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Suite from 'The Nose'
written by Dmitri Shostakovich |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 26 January, 1934 |
| Medium | broadcast |
| Listening Environment | in private, indoors, solitary |
Notes
*The Suite, Op. 15a, for tenor, baritone and chamber orchestra, from Shostakovich's satirical opera in three acts, The Nose (1928), a dramatization of the classic Gogol novel.
Originally submitted by gkw on Sun, 26 Jul 2015 11:17:52 +0100
Approved on Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:39:21 +0100