Sylvia Townsend Warner - 23 October, 1929
from The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner, page 46:
...dined with Victor for a Delius concert. Victor sickening for he knew not what, and the Delius concert rather bored us. The truth is we neither of us like music enough for that kind of thing. [...] Delius should never be shown a word. Words dry him up. He was there, blind and paralysed, bowing his rather bird-like head to the applause. The performance was sympathetically encored, and each time I thought he would crash the blind brow into the gallery barrier. We may not be a musical nation, but we are so kind to dumb animals. When he was alive … more >>
Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Claire Harman (ed.), The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner (:London, 1995), p. 46. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1442398956759 accessed: 20 April, 2024
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written by Delius |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 23 October, 1929 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |