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...
28.11.2016 - Poems read and Music played: Thomas Linley, Junior: The Tempest (incidental Music, 1777) William Byrd: Ah Silly Soul Thomas Weelkes: Some men desire spouses Thomas Ford: There is a lady sweet and Kind (1607) Robert Herrick: Gather ye Rose-buds...
15.11.2016 - Texts read & Music played 1. It was a Lover and his Lass (Thomas Morley, 1600) 2. It was a Lover and his Lass (Henry Rowley Bishop, 1819) 3. Greensleeves (anon., c. 1580) 4. Where the Bee sucks (from The Tempest, Robert Johnson, 1611) 5. Where...
03.11.2016 - ‘From Spring Joy to Winter Sorrow’ Texts read & Music played 1. Richard Lion-Heart, ‘Je nuis homs pris’ 2. Blondel de Nesles, ‘A l’entrant d’este’ 3. ‘Sumer is icumen in’ 4....
20.10.2016 - Poetry Cafe, Oct 13, 2016 Texts read & Music played 1. John Steinbeck, ‘Cannery Row’ (River Carmel) 2. William Wordsworth, ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ 3. G.F. Handel, ‘Water Music’ (Minuet &...
23.05.2016 - Texts read and Music played: 1. Moths and Butterflies, from Wand of Youth, by Edward Elgar 2. National Trust Guidebook to Sissinghurst 3. The Garden, by Vita Sackville-West 4. Fantasia on Greensleeves, by Ralph Vaughan Williams 5. Sissinghurst,...
23.05.2016 - Text read and Music played: 1. Flowery Tuscany, D.H. Lawrence 2. Inferno (opening), Dante 3. The fair land…, Petrarch 4. Primavera, Botticelli 5. Spring – Largo, from The Four Seasons, Vivaldi 6. L’Alba separa dalla luce l’ombra, Tosti...
29.03.2016 - Texts read and Music played: 1. The Eagle and the Hawk, John Denver 2. Lunardi’s Balloon Ascent, December 1784 3. Learning to Fly, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 4. Coxwell and Glaischer’s 1852 Balloon Ascent 5. Up, Up and Away, Fifth...
29.03.2016 - Texts read and Music played: 1. Engine sound 1956 Austin A35 2. Mobile Pursuit 3. Wheels Cha-Cha 4. Meditation on the A30, John Betjeman 5. Engine sound: 1925 Bentley 3 litre 6. Motor-Car-Acteristics 7. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame...
