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[[A Year I Remember]] is a piece of music that Delia created for ''[[A Silence filled with Greek]]'', which appears to be a one-off programme by Michael Ayrton, produced by Douglas Cleverdon<ref>[http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/bbc.htm University of Delaware Library catalogue for BBC Third Programme Radio Scripts 1940-1969, Manuscript Collection Number 332], Item F134, cat.no. TLO 50/DA495.</ref>. Its script is dated 17 Jan 1967<ref>The catalogue of Box 20 of [http://indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/test/index.php?p=cleverdon2inv&i=5 the archive of [[Douglas Cleverdon]]'s scripts at the Lilly Library]</ref>
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[[A Year I Remember]] is a piece of music that Delia created for ''[[A Silence filled with Greek]]'', which appears to be a one-off programme by Michael Ayrton, produced by Douglas Cleverdon<ref>[http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/bbc.htm University of Delaware Library catalogue for BBC Third Programme Radio Scripts 1940-1969, Manuscript Collection Number 332], Item F134, cat.no. TLO 50/DA495.</ref>. Its script is dated 17 Jan 1967.<ref>The catalogue of Box 20 of [http://indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/test/index.php?p=cleverdon2inv&i=5 the archive of [[Douglas Cleverdon]]'s scripts at the Lilly Library]</ref>
  
The programme is described as
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British painter, sculptor and author Michael Ayrton offers a picture of his first experiences of Greece.<ref name=kingston>[http://newspaperarchive.com/jm/kingston/kingston/kingston-gleaner/1968/03-24/page-61 Programme guide in the Kingston Gleaner Newspaper Archive: March 24, 1968 - Page 61]</ref>
 
British painter, sculptor and author Michael Ayrton offers a picture of his first experiences of Greece.<ref name=kingston>[http://newspaperarchive.com/jm/kingston/kingston/kingston-gleaner/1968/03-24/page-61 Programme guide in the Kingston Gleaner Newspaper Archive: March 24, 1968 - Page 61]</ref>
 
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in which Ayrton is quoted as saying
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and Ayrton is quoted as saying
 
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I'm not, by the way, a sober and scholarly figure nervously divorced
 
I'm not, by the way, a sober and scholarly figure nervously divorced
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I am as much committed to twentieth-century politics as Pericles insisted
 
I am as much committed to twentieth-century politics as Pericles insisted
 
Athenians should be in the fifth century. Furthermore, the two parts--or the many parts--of my illusions are indivisible.
 
Athenians should be in the fifth century. Furthermore, the two parts--or the many parts--of my illusions are indivisible.
When I am nailed by the gods amdn my insides are drawn into the intestinal maze of
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When I am nailed by the gods and my insides are drawn into the intestinal maze of
 
Daedalus, my feet remain firmly in the present and I am aware of what is around me.
 
Daedalus, my feet remain firmly in the present and I am aware of what is around me.
 
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Latest revision as of 22:25, 25 May 2016

Part of DD082814

A Year I Remember is a piece of music that Delia created for A Silence filled with Greek, which appears to be a one-off programme by Michael Ayrton, produced by Douglas Cleverdon[1]. Its script is dated 17 Jan 1967.[2]

In the programme,

British painter, sculptor and author Michael Ayrton offers a picture of his first experiences of Greece.[3]

and Ayrton is quoted as saying

I'm not, by the way, a sober and scholarly figure nervously divorced from my own time or in love with the past. I like street noises. I am as much committed to twentieth-century politics as Pericles insisted Athenians should be in the fifth century. Furthermore, the two parts--or the many parts--of my illusions are indivisible. When I am nailed by the gods and my insides are drawn into the intestinal maze of Daedalus, my feet remain firmly in the present and I am aware of what is around me.
[...]
[I am] a sort of human truffle-hound nosing for some hidden or disguised meaning in landscape long inhabited. I don't mean that I am an archaeologist or a historian, but rather that I am a sort of trawling tourist, equipped with an echo-sounder.[4]

and it may include a taped conversation with Basil Wright.[5]

Douglas Cleverdon's papers include several works entitled A Year I Remember:

  • A Year I Remember - 1913, by Rose Macaulay. June 4, 1950[6]
  • A Year I Remember - 1939, by Frances Watson. Dec. 30, 1964[6] produced by Douglas Cleverdon.[7]

A Year IR is mentioned in Delia's handwritten list of pieces that she was thinking of reusing for the Brighton Festival.[8]

Availability

  • Broadcast on the 17th January 1967 at 7:30pm on the BBC Third Programme.[9]
  • Broadcast on the 10th February 1967 on the BBC Third Programme.[10]
  • Broadcast on Sunday March 24th 1968 at 8:30 in Kingston, Jamaica, on radio station JBC.[3]
  • The BBC Sound Archive tape TRW 6568: A Year I Remember is not to be found.[11]

References