Work
Your grave grey eyes
for voice and piano
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About
Your grave grey eyes is dedicated to Jeanne Renshaw (1892 – 1989), Katherine Mansfield’s youngest sister. Page, like many others, had come under the spell of the Beauchamp girls, whom he may have met when they were at school in London, or as part of his social circle in Wellington (why a married man should write and dedicate such suggestive songs to a young woman is a matter for speculation).
Commissioned note
Donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library by Mrs Anne Bennett, daughter of Jeanne Renshaw (née Beauchamp)
Dedication note
to Jeanne
Text note
Words by Aleister Crowley (1875 – 1947)