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Camp Caravan, Royalston, Massachusetts.
The Mary Pearce Room I…
The room is cold but manageable – an electric heater in the room classifies as luxury. When packing for this visit, I looked at the very thick socks worn at Sherborne and decided against bringing them. But I brought & have donned thermal underpants acquired for 10 months at Sherborne House in 1975-76.
First event of the day: to the village school where Walter & Elan were working with the children on rhythmic attention exercises. The exercises challenged me, the children doing significantly better. Returning to the camp, good news: fortuitiously, Aunt Vivien Elliot is visiting with son Hugh.
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I have a better sense of why Lord Pentland held such animosity towards JGB, which continues to this day. Even, the subject arose this week in correspondence with a well known guitarist & pal, a member of a NY Foundation group.
In the afternoon, invited to a Movements class with George: what a privilege to be present with a group of people applying themselves to this remarkable practice.
After tea, a presentation from the draft notes of Discipline & The Act Of Music. Then to a reading of Beelezebub & dinner.
Now, dribbling.
"We begin by doing nothing.
Then, we move to doing something."
