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<p>Listen to a bit of a Contemporary concert from B.B.C. Suite 'The Nose' by Shostakovitch.* Very amusing & exhilerating - but I shouldn't be surprised if it were found to be uneventful & even conventional with all the glitter taken off - this, especially the Entre Acts. </p>
excerpt from 'Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938' pp. 197 (47 words)