The Royal Opera House, London, has now, in the Box Office lobby, an
archival exhibition of the House in 1914-1919; one exhibit is a
report of an Arts Fund performance on 5 Nov 1914 in the presence of
the Queen Alexandra, ambassadors & nobility, which concludes:. "
Following the ballet Lady Tree held the audience in tense silence by
her impressive elocution of Kipling's 'For all we have and are'*, to
which she was induced to add 'Recessional' given with great feeling
and a diction of crystal clearness."
*For all we have....* was published in "The Times" on 1st Sept.
RK had refused to allow 'Recessional' to be set to music (Lycett, p 459).
Reciter presumably Maud, Lady Beerbohm Tree.
I thought this a moving item.
Bryan Diamond
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