John Dalmas wrote:

>Billy Kitson wrote:
>
>>All it took was 5 minutes of the sound track to Britten's "You Tell Me?"
>
>It may have been the 1936 documentary "Night Mail," depicting the journey
>of the mail train from London to Glasgow.  The film used Britten's music
>set to verses by W.H.  Auden.

I've always been fascinated by the music Britten set to forms of travel.
I'm thinking of the train ride scene in *Turn of the Screw*, the motion
of the boat in *Curlew River* (and possibly in *Death in Venice*?), and
Tarquin's ride in *Rape of Lucrece*.  I wonder if the music from "Night
Mail" is available on CD.

Walter Meyer