Britten is one of my favorite composers, and this was an especially nice thing for me to discover he'd worked on. And I don't hold the Gershwin against him, since Auden had obviously just been re-reading Kipling.
I went to Segedunum on my first free weekend and can remember standing looking out there in rather inadequate clothing (the local shops having all switched to selling delicate spring garments) and having vast amounts of empathy for all those poor Roman soldiers.
I send sympathies for your past shivering self, but that's a wonderful story.
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Britten is one of my favorite composers, and this was an especially nice thing for me to discover he'd worked on. And I don't hold the Gershwin against him, since Auden had obviously just been re-reading Kipling.
I went to Segedunum on my first free weekend and can remember standing looking out there in rather inadequate clothing (the local shops having all switched to selling delicate spring garments) and having vast amounts of empathy for all those poor Roman soldiers.
I send sympathies for your past shivering self, but that's a wonderful story.