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<p>Gram. and wireless after dinner. Berlioz' interesting Corsair Ov. & Irelands meandering Pft concerto. The form is so loose & it really is only cheap ballade music (attractive in its way) touched up. Helen Perkin doesn't make it sound as effective or snappy as she might. </p>
excerpt from 'Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938' pp. 226 (44 words)