Edith Wharton (1862 — 1937)
Novelist, short story writer….and poet!
Texts read and Music played:
- Chopin: Romanza (Larghetto), Piano Concerto no.1 (Arthur Rubinstein, LSO/ Barbirolli, 1937)
- Edith Wharton: The Parting Day
- Henry Cowell: Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10 for Oboe and Strings
- Edith Wharton: The Decoration of Houses
- Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag
- Edward Macdowell: New England Idylls
- Edith Wharton: A Motor-Flight through France
- Edith Wharton: Chartres
- Charles Widor: Toccata, from Symphony No. 5
- Edith Wharton: A Woman’s Nature
- Edith Wharton: Wants
- Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth (1905), an extract
- George Gershwin: An American in Paris
- Edith Wharton: La Belgique ne regrette rien
- Edith Wharton: You and You — To the American Private in the Great War
- Paul Creston: A Rumour
- Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence (1920), extracts
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Grand Scherzo
