| 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.'
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 29 Mar 1940 and 31 Mar 1940 | ||||||||||
| Country: | USA | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Benjamin Britten |
| 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, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | [reviews] |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | March 1940 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5511 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | 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://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5511, accessed: 26 April 2024 | |
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