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Rome
English source:
Virginia Woolf
Rome: tea. Tea in café. Ladies in bright coats and white hats.
Music. Look out and see people like movies . . . Ices.
Old man who haunts the Greco . . . Fierce large jowled old
ladies . . . talking about Monaco. Talleyrand. Some very
poor black wispy women. The effect of dowdiness produced
by wispy hair. Sunday café . . . Very cold. The prime Minister's
letter offering to recommend me for the Companion of Honour. No.
Music. Look out and see people like movies . . . Ices.
Old man who haunts the Greco . . . Fierce large jowled old
ladies . . . talking about Monaco. Talleyrand. Some very
poor black wispy women. The effect of dowdiness produced
by wispy hair. Sunday café . . . Very cold. The prime Minister's
letter offering to recommend me for the Companion of Honour. No.
Composer
Dominick Argento
Dominick Argento (1927 – 2019) was an American composer known for his lyric operatic and choral music. Among his best known pieces are the operas Postcard from Morocco, Miss Havisham's Fire, The Masque of Angels, and The Aspern Papers. Image © King…
