01.03.2017 - « The compelling, inspiring and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of Apartheid and the tumultuouis days of freedom that followed. » Questions discussed by Angie, Maria, Sandra, Sonja and...
16.02.2017 - Texts read & Music played: Auld Lang Syne, sung by Nellie Melba (1905) Love’s Old Sweet Song The Last Rose of Summer The Road to Mandalay On the Alm, from From the Bavarian Highlands, Edward Elgar Where Corals Lie, from Sea Pictures,...
30.01.2017 - Songs of Robert Burns Scotland’s national poet, celebrating his birth on January 25, 1759 Texts read and Music played: Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary? Walter Scott’s description of Burns My love is like a red, red rose (melody on...
30.01.2017 - ‘Serious Sweet’, by A. L. Kennedy (2016) Five of us (Maria, Lee Anne, Sandra, Alex and Andrew) discuss A.L. Kennedy’s latest book, the novel ‘Serious Sweet’ , long-listed for the Booker Prize in 2016. A good man in a...
17.01.2017 - Texts read and Music played:- 1. ‘Come into the Garden, Maud’ (Alfred Lord Tennyson and Michael William Balfe) 2. ‘Come into the Garden, Maud’ (Arthur Somervell) 3. ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ (John Keats) 4....
10.01.2017 - Alan Bennett: ‘The Lady in the Van’ Five of us (Sylvia, Sandra, Heinz, Tom and Andrew) discuss the book by Alan Bennett: about the eccentric, stubborn and demanding woman who lived in a van for 15 years in the drive of the writer in...
28.12.2016 - Texts read & Music played: Viviani: Sonata for Trumpet & Organ St. Luke Ch. 2, vv. 1 ff Ihr Kinderlein kommet (for harp) Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Adoration by the Shepherds How Beautifully Shines the Morning Star Behold, a Branch is...
28.12.2016 - Texts read and Songs heard: 17th. c. Ballad: ‘London Mourning the Great Fire’ ‘Streets of London’, Ralph McTell ‘Rule Britannia’, from ‘Alfred’ (1753), Thomas Arne ‘The Keel Row’...
14.12.2016 - The first book for discussion is ‘Light Years’ by the American author James Salter, a novel about lost lives and the elusiveness of happiness.
28.11.2016 - With the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare and the current production of ‘Der Sturm‘ at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, the Reading Circle decided to read Shakespeare’s last play, ‘The Tempest’, from...
