Record Number: 5511
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Thank you ? thank you - & thank you for a most marvellous show. ? I am more than grateful to you for having spend so much time & energy in learning it. I hope it wasn?t altogether a thankless task, but certainly judging by the rapturous notices you had from all the critics, people realised what a task you had & how marvellously you overcame all difficulties.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 29 Mar 1940 and 31 Mar 1940
Country:USA
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:22 Nov 1913
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Composer
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:USA
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[reviews]
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication DetailsMarch 1940
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5511
Source:Benjamin Britten
Editor:Donald Mitchell
Title:Letters from a Life: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1998
Vol:2 (1939-45)
Page:789-90
Additional Comments:
Author: Benjamin Britten et al Editor: Donald Mitchell and Philip Reed Letter 251 March 31st 1940 From the footnotes: The concert was the first performance of Britten?s Violin Concerto on 28 March in New York. Three reviews are quoted: by Olin Downes in the New York Times of 29 March 1940 by Jerome D. Bohm in the New York Herald Tribune of 29 March 1940 by Louis Biancolli in the New York World-Telegram of 29 March 1940
Citation:
Benjamin Britten, Donald Mitchell (ed.), Letters from a Life: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten, (London, 1998), 2 (1939-45), p. 789-90, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5511, accessed: 27 September 2024
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