Only Connect - Imogen Holst <> Benjamin Britten
How are these sitters connected?
 Imogen Clare Holst |
 Benjamin Britten |
The connection
Imogen Holst was Benjamin Britten’s music assistant,
copying out his pencil notes as he wrote his opera Gloriana. She said ‘He worked at such a tremendous
speed, that I thought I should never keep pace with him.’
Find out more about Holst connections with co-curator Peter Sheppard Skaerved
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