Farewell to the Queen’s Hall
OU will remember that the Queen’s Hall, London’s most famous and loved concert hall, was made a total wreck during a particularly savage air raid. I shall always remember that night and my feelings the next morning-it happened that on that Saturday afternoon I was playing with the Philharmonic in the Queen’s Hall in a performance of Elgar’s Gerontius, and as we were giving a concert there the next day I am afraid that most of the orchestra left their instruments in the hall. We optimistically arrived on the Sunday morning for our rehearsal, and as I drove down Portland Place and the debris got worse and worse, my heart sank lower and lower, and turning the corner around Broadcasting House in Langham Place, there stood the smoking remains of my musical home, with my disconsolate colleagues vainly trying to rescue fragments of smouldering instruments. Among them I could see my friend, Cedric Sharp, solo ’cellist of the Philharmonic, and a very great artist. He was holding up two charred pieces of wood-the back and belly of his famous Teeler ‘cello. a beautiful instrument and an irre-
placeable loss.-
("Music in London:
Thomas
Matthews
visiting violinist, 2YA, January 13.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 137, 6 February 1942, Page 5
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