16.08.2017 - Edinburgh Texts read and Music played: Edinburgh, Alan Bold From a Window in Princes Street, W.E. Henley Alas what am I? (Que suis-je helas?), Mary Stuart Symphony no. 3, ‘The Scottish’, Felix Mendelssohn, 1st. movement...
07.08.2017 - « A woman arrives in Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Once there, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the...
17.07.2017 - ‘Summer in Grez, France’ Texts read and Music: ‘Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes’, Robert Louis Stevenson (RLS) ‘The Vagabond’, from ‘Songs of Travel’, RLS & Ralph Vaughan Williams...
05.07.2017 - ‘The Noise of Time’ (2016), Julian Barnes a ‘fictional biography’ of Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet composer In May 1937 a man in his early 30s waits by the lift of a Leningrad appartment block. He waits all through the night,...
04.07.2017 - New York Texts read & Music played: New York, Frank Sinatra Drop me off in Harlem, Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington Theme for English B, Langston Hughes City of Glass, Paul Auster Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote Moon River,...
26.06.2017 - Mauthausen: a tragic paradox? Texts read and Music played: Theodor Adorno: Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft (quote) Paul Celan: Fugue of Death (poem) Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps Mauthausen Exhibition Catalogue (extracts)...
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...
