Posted in music, performance, Woolf diary, tagged commodification, Dominick Argento, From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, Pultizer Prize for Music on Thursday 5 March 2009| 1 Comment »
The piece, called From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, was composed by Dominick Argento for medium voice and piano. It was commissioned by the Schubert Club of St. Paul, and premiered Jan. 5, 1975, in Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis.
You can purchase a CD of a 1975 live performance by mezzo soprano Dame Janet Baker, with Martin Isepp on piano, here. The recording was released in 1997.
Posted in Woolf diary, Woolf Letters, tagged Mark Hussey, pocket engagement diaries, selling Woolf, Woolf diaries on Monday 28 July 2008| Leave a Comment »
From Mark Hussey, author of Virginia Woolf A to Z, comes the news that if you have a spare $153,580, eight of Woolf’s pocket diaries can be yours.
The diaries, which are being offered by an antiquarian bookseller in London, were kept by Woolf from 1930 onward. Among them is her pocket diary for 1941, the year she ended her life. The diaries include engagement entries, manuscript entries and other notes.
Get the pocket diary details here.
Posted in books, food, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, Woolf blog, Woolf diary on Tuesday 16 October 2007| 1 Comment »
Yet that is what Mark Crick has Virginia Woolf cooking in his book, Kafka’s Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes.
Crick, a photographer who started cooking at the age of 11 and learned the fine points of food shopping while trailing behind his mother on sick days home from school, wrote the book — and illustrated it — as a lark.
In it, he shares a recipe and a companion piece of short fiction for 14 different writers. Each is written in the voice of a famous author — from Homer to Chaucer to Jane Austen to Raymond Chandler.
Virginia Woolf, he says, was the most difficult to capture. He did it using her signature stream of consciousness style.
“She was difficult because her voice is so subtle and not that old-fashioned sounding. You really want people with a voice that is recognisable even if they’re writing about car maintenance,” Crick told The Telegraph.
He portrays Woolf as cooking clafoutis grandmère, a French cherry tart.
“I thought of her making something soft, rising and feminine” he said in an interview with The Telegraph. “The cherries are cradled and protected in batter in the same way that the mother in Woolf’s books protects her children.”
Here’s a quote from his section on Woolf:
Woolf: Clafoutis Grandmère ‘Looking back at the cherries, that would not be pitted, red polka dots on white, so bright and jolly, their little core of hardness invisible, in pity she thought of Mrs Sorley, that poor woman with no husband and so many mouths to feed…’
Just out in Australia, Crick’s book was first published in Britain in 2005 and is now available in 27 countries. The first American edition, published last year, is available through Harcourt.
Check out January Magazine for more.
Posted in Anne Fernald, Bloomsbury Heritage Series, books, Cecil Woolf, Cecil Woolf Publishers, Virginia Woolf, Woolf diary, Woolf Letters, Woolf likes and dislikes, tagged Anne Fernald on Wednesday 10 October 2007| Leave a Comment »
The publisher and nephew of Leonard and Virginia has proposed a project for Blogging Woolf. And he plans to publish it as a monograph in his Bloomsbury Heritage series.
Cecil has asked us to collect “Virginia Woolf’s Likes and Dislikes” on this blog. Readers can submit their entries in the comments section on the Woolf likes and dislikes page, citing the source of the quote (Woolf’s Diary or Letters), volume, and page number.
Contributors should also include your name and academic affiliation, if appropriate, so you can be credited for your contribution in the Bloomsbury Heritage volume Cecil plans to edit and publish.
Cecil himself, who heads Cecil Woolf Publishers in London, has come up with the first offering. Here’s what he sent Blogging Woolf:
On the previous page of that volume of letters, I found the following:
Now it’s your turn, fellow Woolfians. Click here to post away. Then read more about Cecil on Anne Fernald’s blog, Fernham.
Posted in a blog of her own, Blogging Woolf, Ireland, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Woolf diary, Woolf Travel on Sunday 5 August 2007| Leave a Comment »
It took a few days, but I finally posted my photos of sites Virginia and Leonard Woolf saw when they made their sole trip to Ireland in 1934. Follow Woolf to Ireland to see them all. You’ll also find excerpts from Woolf’s Diary that describe the sites pictured.
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