April 15, 1938-
     All of us but B & Sally (who had tonsillitis) to E. Aurora for Good Friday service.
                                                                               April 16, 1938-
     Geo. Marcha down to dig a garden back of the pavilion. PM. Up in fields to make a sketch of pools and early trees.
                                                                               April 17, 1938-
     Philharmonic concert- “Appalachia” by Delius. The announcement of this performance, received earlier in the week, had me all on fire to hear it. (I even enquired to the Gramophone shop whether it had been recorded). But I was disappointed in it. The slave sing motive, described as very like the opening bars of the quartet from Rigoletto, was indeed almost identical which ruined it for me. In addition to that, there was not the least resemblance of this music to negro music.
                                                                               April 18, 1938-
     My birthday present the Quartet No. 15, Opus 132 of Beethoven in the mail. Despite the morning confusion I played it thru, and I knew almost with the opening bars that I had been longing for this music.
    The first thunderstorm of spring last night.
     Thinking again of the “Appalachia”- there came back to me memories of the ends of the different “variations,” when the