Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
A Salvation Army Commissioner, granddaughter of founder William Booth, known for her lively longevity and musical passion.
On the island
Eight records
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight"
On this desert island thing it would take me back to a special moment in my life. I was at home, I reckon I was about twelve, eleven or twelve ish. My mother was playing the Moonlight Sonata. and I was standing near her beside the piano. And As she played I suddenly thought, Oh, isn't she beautiful? with her dull gold hair and the pink in her cheeks. And then For the first time in my life. I felt a strange Uplifting of spirit. I was carried away by the beauty of the music.
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Yehudi Menuhin with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
I want books. violin concerto on the desert island so that I can play it and play it and play it and there'll be, you know, nobody to get sick of hearing it. Until I've Grasped. as it were, the nuances, the beautiful phrasing, the The well, the music of it sinks into me. Because I don't know it very well.
Master Ernest Lough with the Choir of the Temple Church, London
Cause I'm a creature of moods, I'm an up and downer. You see, sometimes I feel tremendously up and can face anything and another time I'm down in the dumps and Well, I know I shall have a good many down in the dumps times, stuck there by myself. And to hear this Beautiful. I shall play it every night, every evening. before I settle for the night. Hear my prayer. Because it That's what I shall be saying all day long. O Lord, hear my prayer, get me out of this.
Spring Song (Songs Without Words, Op. 62, No. 6 in A major)
They they take me back to my childhood when we were learning them, playing them ourselves.
The Swan (from The Carnival of the Animals)
That's such an exquisite piece of music. Course it's awful the things you've got to leave out, but I shall find some of them on the other side. I'm full of hope. But the swan, the cello is an instrument. I played it for a little while myself, and I discovered just enough to know how difficult it is to play, how you have to make it sing for you.
I've chosen this piece because it incorporates a chorus that I like very much. I know of fount. Where sins are washed away. Of course again we're dealing with things that can't be expressed, therefore you must have imagery in it.
Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah)Favourite
It'll be rather hard for me to believe that it's God's will that I should be stuck on that desert island too long. But hearing it sung, the hallelujah chorus, you see, that would comfort me. And I should play it every night.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:18How important to you is music?
Very important.
Presenter asks
10:26Did you take it for granted that [the Salvation Army] was going to be your life?
No. But I gradually came to feel that It ought to be. My parents never spoke about it. But I Knew it would please them.
Presenter asks
10:43Did you go to a Salvation Army training school?
Oh, yes, certainly. But I didn't decide upon that until I was... nineteen
Presenter asks
12:32Where did you serve when you started?
I served in Bath. The city of Bath Bath Two Corps. That was my first corps. And then I had a corps in London. And then I went on to the staff of the training college to help train the cadets.
The keepsakes
Presenter asks
21:32I'd like to hear some of the small-scale stories of your own ministry, of individual cases that come to mind.
I do remember an experience that that was special, and that was the Silver Town explosion... I gathered together a group of the cadets... and we marched toward the noise. And I I shall never forget the devastation, the little rows of houses without roofs and The misery of the people... we made a fire in the streets... and on these fires we boiled our kettles. And so we gave the people a hot drink and blessed them and kissed them and comforted them. It was a wonderful experience.
“I say sometimes when I'm speaking. That the Salvation Army began. In the heart of a boy on his fifteenth birthday.”
“I thought I was Saying goodbye. for everything that was beautiful and that I loved in life, the country, my dear ones. and that I was going into a life that was Quite contrary to my own nature, there was a very timid child... And I thought I was losing everything. But you see, as it's turned out, I've had. A life so full of of joys and richness and Looking back I can see how How wonderfully God has overruled for me.”
“And that, of course, is the aim for the Salvation Army: that we should reach the people. that hadn't had the Gospel or hadn't understood it enough. to make any sense to them.”