13.06.2017 - 50 Years on: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Playlist: Texts read & Music played: Opening track Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ‘Tune in, turn on, drop out’, Timothy Leary ‘Almost metaphysical urban poetry’,...
07.06.2017 - A detailed portrait of a marriage, family ties and the community of Crosby, Maine. A penetrating, vibrant exploration of the human soul, with all the joys and grief of a painful journey of love. What sort of town is Crosby? Why is the book called...
07.06.2017 - 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...
17.05.2017 - Texts read & Music played: 1. Robert Schumann: Humoresque 2. Emily Dickinson: I dwell in possibility 3. A curious Cloud surprised the Sky 4. Eduard Grieg: Morning Mood, from Peer Gynt, Suite no.1 5. The Day came slow — till Five...
11.05.2017 - We review how the Reading Circle started in Sept 2012 and its aims: to share personal reading experiences; to explore different readings, impressions and insights; to enjoy social company and interaction. How do sessions run? Which books, and how...
11.05.2017 - New England (1) Texts read and Music played: Pilgrims and Puritans, Stephen Vincent Benet The Housatonic at Stockbridge, from Three Places in New England, Charles Ives The ‘St. Gaudens’ in Boston Common (Col. Shaw and his...
19.04.2017 - Once upon … one day in a life: March 30, 1924. Jane Goodchild, 22, an orphan, a maid in a country mansion, has no mother to visit on ‘Mothering Sunday’. Her relationship with Paul, of upper-middle class, changes dramatically that...
28.03.2017 - Texts read and Music played: Stupendo e fantastico lago, Ettore Cappelletti Di Provenza il mar, from La Traviata, Verdi Anne lacus tantos, from Georgics Book 2, Virgil Funiculi, Funicula, Luigi Denza La Chartreuse de Parme, Stendhal I Promessi...
13.03.2017 - Texts read and Music played: ‘Roses of Picardy’, sung by Peter Dawson ‘The Washing on the Siegfried Line’, Flanagan & Allen ‘The White Cliffs of Dover’, Vera Lynn ‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen’, Noel...
13.03.2017 - Texts read and Music played: Sigh no more, ladies, from Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing, Peter Warlock London, William Blake London, Benjamin Britten The Sick Rose, William Blake Elegy (The Sick Rose), from Serenade for Tenor, Horn and...
