And So They Were Married
HEN Myra Hess inaugurated her war-time concerts in the National Gallery to provide music for raid harassed Londoners she could hardly have suspected that she was setting up a matrimonial agency. Yet, in a small way, that was what she did. "Tt was like this,’ Eileen Ralph, the pianist now playing over the National stations, told "The Listener." "Myra Hess-now Dame Myra Hess-asked me to play in the Gallery with a man called Thomas Matthews. I said ‘Who's he?’ (I suppose he said ‘Who’s she?’ when Myra Hess put it up to him.) Anyway, we played together and it was a success, so we were asked to play all the Mozart violin sonatas together, twelve of them. We did. And we were martied just before the last one; Myra Hess gave us a wedding cake at the Gallery when we played the last sonata. No one seemed surprised. They seemed to expect it. You know what people are."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 136, 30 January 1942, Page 6
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163And So They Were Married New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 136, 30 January 1942, Page 6
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