John Caldicott in Foundling Hospital, London - the 1940's
from The Foundling Museum: An Introduction, page 31:
... there was this thing about the Chapel, the peace, the quiet, the beautiful stained glass windows, all of this actually had a profound effect on me ... I first heard the organ playing in the Chapel, I was ... completely overwhelmed, this gigantic sound reverberating around the Chapel, to me, was absolute bliss and that was the beginning, I think, of my interest and appreciation of music.
Caro Howell, The Foundling Museum: An Introduction (London, 2014), p. 31. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1670422180222 accessed: 4 December, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| Organ music |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | the 1940's |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | indoors, in public |
Notes
According to https://coramstory.org.uk/ John Caldicott was admitted to the Foundling Hospital in 1936 and fostered in the countryside for 5 years before returning to the Hospital itself. His birth date and the date of the listening experience have been estimated from the date of admittance.