Record Number: 20693

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The music of "La Boheme" having taken special hold of me, I read the libretto in the Mitchell Library, and as much as I could find about Murger and his world, and the people he knew who lived on black coffee and little else in romantic Paris, and was saddened and perplexed by the opera's alloy of sordidness and sentimentality'.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1929 and 1 Oct 1939

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Glasgow
specific address: Mitchell Library

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Ralph Glasser

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

3 Apr 1916

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

factory worker, later economist

Religion:

Jewish

Country of Origin:

England of lithuanian heritage

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Luigi Illica

Title:

[libretto of 'La Boheme]

Genre:

Drama, libretto

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ
Mitchell Library

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Source Information:

Record ID:

20693

Source:

Print

Author:

Ralph Glasser

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

n/a

Page:

158

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Ralph Glasser, Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs (London, 1990), p. 158, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20693, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None