Virginia Woolf in London - early June, 1932
from The diary of Virginia Woolf, page 107:
My comment on the Shaws:
he said...The great pleasure of the Broadcasting to me is that I can sit at home & conduct The Meistersinger myself. I sit with the book of the score & conduct & I'm furious when they don't follow me. That way one finds how often the singers make howlers - come in a bar early or late. Beecham - (here he sang a piece of the Magic Flute) turned that - which is solemn, slow, processionaly [?] - into a hornpipe.
cite as
Virginia Woolf, and Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie (ed.), The diary of Virginia Woolf, volume 4 (Harmondsworth, ), p. 107. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1446304716352 accessed: 5 December, 2024
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The Magic Flute
written by Mozart, Amadeus Mozart |
performed by George Bernard Shaw |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | early June, 1932 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by Jo Reardon on Sat, 31 Oct 2015 15:18:37 +0000
Approved on Sun, 20 Dec 2015 08:19:11 +0000