The Cello and the Nightingales
eBook - ePub

The Cello and the Nightingales

The Life of Beatrice Harrison

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Cello and the Nightingales

The Life of Beatrice Harrison

About this book

In May 1924, the BBC broadcast a miracle to the world: a wild nightingale singing a duet with a remarkable young cellist called Beatrice Harrison. Over a million people tuned in to hear this live performance, which Beatrice repeated with a nightingale for the BBC every spring until 1942. These broadcasts transformed the public interest in nightingales – a species already in decline.

If Beatrice's duets with the nightingales touched a chord with the world, her own life proved to be as musical, free-spirited and inspiring. From her early years as a musical prodigy to recording with the most important composers of the day and playing for the wounded in the Second World War, this timely reissue of Patricia Cleveland-Peck's classic book recounts Beatrice's rich life vividly and features a new introduction by Maria Popova.

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Yes, you can access The Cello and the Nightingales by Beatrice Harrison,Patricia Cleveland-Peck, Patricia Cleveland-Peck in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Science Biographies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Introduction to Canongate edition
  7. Editor’s Preface
  8. Introduction to the first edition
  9. 1: ‘Baba play tello!’
  10. 2: ‘Mr Wood was very pleased’
  11. 3: The Mendelssohn Prize
  12. 4: Glorious Pietro and the Double Brahms
  13. 5: ‘Expect us on the Lusitania’
  14. 6: Delius and Elgar
  15. 7: Foyle Riding and the Nightingales
  16. 8: Fêtes Champêtres and Sixpenny Concerts
  17. 9: ‘The setting sun, and music at the close’
  18. Afterword
  19. Discography
  20. Index