1897-10-29 to Maud Burke Cunard

Menu of Letters 1897

Aet. 45, to an American heiress, now a British aristocrat. Hans Richter conducted a “Wagner night” at St James’s Hall on Monday, 1 November 1897.

The “ballet music… plaint of the sirens” was the Venusberg music Richard Wagner wrote for the Paris premiere of Tannhäuser in 1861.

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