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<p>Via Bridges they take me to Barbara, where I have dinner and dash off to B.B.C. Q. Hall concert. Very deadly show - a typical, ignorant, listless Boult concert. Elgars' 'Int & Allo'. which I don't like at the best of times. A new & unimportant [?] Scherzo of Holst - Gieseking is disappointing in a dull show of Beethoven's adorable 4th Concerto - tho' technically some of it is perfect. Brahms impossible 2nd Symphony is made even thicker & muddier than it is.*</p>
excerpt from 'Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938' pp. 247 (82 words)