Bloomsbury Group down to London. In 1905 Vanessa began the "Friday Club" and Thoby ran "Thursday Evenings", which became the basis for the Bloomsbury Group, which to some was really "Cambridge in London". Thoby's premature death in 1906 brought them more firmly together and they became what is now known as the "Old Bloomsbury" group who met in earnest beginning in 1912. In the 1920s and 1930s the group shifted when the original members died and the next generation had reached adulthood. The Bloomsbury Group, mostly from upper middle-class professional families, formed part of "an intellectual aristocracy which could trace itself back
From the Diary of Virginia Woolf From the Diary of Virginia Woolf From the Diary of Virginia Woolf is an eight-part song cycle written by Dominick Argento in 1974 for the English mezzo-soprano Janet Baker. The work won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1975. The text of the songs comes from "A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf", which was published in 1954. (The five-volume diaries edited by Anne Olivier Bell were not published until 1979.) The choice of a prose, rather than poetic, source for a text is a common theme for Argento, who did the same thing in his