Harry Alfred West in Upper Stanton, Somerset - late 19th Century
from The Autobiography of Harry Alfred West, page 6:
[Harry West’s father is not named in the memoir though he was a strong, positive influence in his son’s life]
[My father] had a sense of cultural values, and was an omnivorous reader and student: fairy tales, history, myths, science, theology and much else. He could read music, had a good tenor voice as a church chorister, but could not master an instrument because of faulty sight due to small pox.
Harry Alfred West, The Autobiography of Harry Alfred West. In Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiography, University of Brunel Library Special Collections, number 1.745, p. 6. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1538665509648 accessed: 23 December, 2024 (By Permission of University of Brunel Library, Special Collections.)
Listeners
Listening to
hide composerssinging of a church choir | performed by Mr. West |
Experience Information
Date/Time | late 19th Century |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |