Andrew Milne-Skinner

27.08.2015 - Texts read and Music played Walk to the Paradise Garden, by Frederick Delius, played by The Royal Philharmonic Orchcestra, conducted by Meredith Davies Poem, God’s Garden, by Robert Frost Poem, Down by the Sally Gardens, by W.B. Yeats Down by the...

23.07.2015 - Texts read and Music played Summer is Icumen In, sung by the Hilliard Ensemble An English Suite – Pastoral, by Hubert Parry, played by the English String Orchestra, conducted by William Boughton ‘Summer in the City, sung by The Lovin’...

09.07.2015 - The third of three programmes on film music and poetic texts: Poetic Literature and Film. 1. March from The River Kwai and Colonel Bogey by Malcom Arnold from the film Bridge over the River Kwai (1957) 2. Overture to the film Lawrence of Arabia by...

25.06.2015 - The second of three programmes on film music and poetic texts (poems and novels) that inspired films. 1. Blue Skies from The Jazz Singer, sung by Al Jolson 2. Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz, sung by Judy Garland 3. Secret Love from...

11.06.2015 - The first of three programmes on film music and poetic texts (poems and novels) that inspired films. 1. Mammy, sung by Al Jolson (1927) 2. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails, sung Fred Astaire in Top Hat (1934) 3. As time goes by, music by Max Steiner,...

28.05.2015 - We take to the waves in this programme….exploring poems and music that evoke the sea! Poems read and Music played 1. Hebrides Overture — Fingal’s Cave (Felix Mendelssohn) 2. Storm, from Four Sea Interludes ,from Peter Grimes (Benjamin...

27.04.2015 - Texts read & Music played 1. ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’, from ‘Kiss me, Kate’, by Cole Porter 2. ‘This royal throne…’, from Shakespeare’s ‘Richard II’ 3. ‘Harfleur’, from William Walton’s music for the...

20.04.2015 - Texts read and Music played ‘On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring’, Frederick Delius ‘Spring: the Cuckoo’, William Shakespeare ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’, Robert Browning Symphony no. 6...

07.04.2015 - Texts read and Music played 1. ‘Moony’ from ‘Women in Love’ by D.H. Lawrence 2. ‘Song to the Moon’ from ‘Rusalka’ by Dvorak 3. ‘The Moon’ by W.H. Davies 4. ‘Moonlight Sonata’ (opening movement) by...

26.02.2015 - «When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.» (Dr Samuel Johnson, 1777) In this Programme of poems, songs and music, we spend a full day in London, from early morning to late at night. Travelling the capital, we meet numerous...