ReadingSimona @ReadingSimona
I'm spending 2016 discovering my grandmother, Simona Pakenham, through her writing: Vaughan Williams, Dieppe, Cheltenham, folk song and more. I'm @Ali_i2 readingsimona.com Sheffield, England Joined December 2015-
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On the anniversary of Vaughan Williams's death, here are the letters Simona received from him, the final one arriving the day he died. @RVWSociety @RVW_Trust @RVWinfo
Letters from Vaughan Williams readingsimona.com/blog/2016/8/24… @RVWSociety @RVWtweets
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Listening to The First Nowell while wrapping presents and feeling very festive!🎄🎁 @RVWinfo @RVWtweets
@zebsoanes Pleased to hear you have tried to be authentic to my grandmother's libretto! Wish I could be there next week.
The First Nowell readingsimona.com/blog/2017/12/1…
Vaughan Williams's The First Nowell, libretto by Simona, is being performed at St Martin's Fundraising Gala (ticket details in their tweet). Some of Simona's original costume designs and the history of the piece can be seen here: readingsimona.com/blog/2017/12/1…
The First Nowell Fundraising Evening is happening at St Martin's on 4 December 2019. Tickets: stmartin-in-the-fields.org/whatson-event/…
Enjoying seeing all Dieppe locations familiar from Pigtails and Pernod on #RickSteinSecretFrance
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Here’s me banging on about one of my musical (and just general) heroes bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01…
@chbid My blog will tell you a fair amount about her, but I'd definitely recommend reading Pigtails and Pernod for an insight into her family, and her Vaughan Williams book for her interests (obsessions?!)
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Did you watch tonight’s #MakingMusicEnglish and want to hear more music by #VaughanWilliams? Discover more at RVWSociety.com
A Dieppoise Easter, 1930/31 readingsimona.com/blog/2016/5/2/…
@cox_tom Meant to tweet this to you at Christmas, so this is now a rather unseasonal notification that 21st Century Yokel gets a mention... x.com/ReadingSimona/…
The First Nowell readingsimona.com/blog/2017/12/1…
😂😂🤣 Poisson d'avril... x.com/dieppefr/statu…
#Dieppe roulera à gauche tout l’été annonce @NLanglois76 sur @fbleubnormandie francebleu.fr/infos/insolite…
They helpfully confirm what the letters I struggled to decipher say, and the Shylock's cat reference is finally explained without me having to read the whole of the Merchant of Venice! readingsimona.com/blog/2016/8/24…
Transcriptions of #VaughanWilliams letters to my grandmother (and many others) are all online. Those to Simona - including some I don't think are among her papers - are here: vaughanwilliams.uk/people/pakenha…
@CreinaLilburne The glamour was lost somewhere between the generations!!
The First Nowell readingsimona.com/blog/2017/12/1…
Nearly time for me to hear my first live Vaughan Williams...
A not very clear photo of the first performance of The First Nowell, but clear enough to recognise Simona's original set and costume designs. @RVWtweets @RVWSociety
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