Sylvia Townsend Warner in King's College (Cambridge) - 29 July, 1930
from The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner, page 64:
The air was warm and sweet with wax candles. We sat at the West end, while Boris Ord played (first something I didn't know, then the Fantasia in G, with the roulades escaping on iron pinions after the pause) and the light in the organ sent an enormous rod of shadow along the roof...There was an interval of conversational voices, and he began to extemporise. I thought I should never hear that again, and in that terrific tunnel of dark masonry with its one useless shaft of light piercing the upper dark, it was like a Donne poem and a funeral. Just at the end, or rather just as one… more >>
Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Claire Harman (ed.), The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner (:London, 1995), p. 64. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1442851513051 accessed: 29 November, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
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Fantasia in G
written by Bach |
performed by Boris Ord |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 29 July, 1930 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
Townsend Warner doesn't actually state who 'we' refers to in this extract but she talks about being with someone called 'Teague' throughout this section.