02.11.2015 - 20th.c. Poetry in English (1/6) Late Victorian and Edwardian Poetry 1. Dawn, from Four Sea Interludes (Britten) 2. Dover Beach, poem by Matthew Arnold 3. Moonlight, from Four Sea Interludes (Britten) 4. Sea Fever, poem by John Masefield 5. Sea...
08.10.2015 - Texts read and Music played 1. Beethovem Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, second movement 2. Poem, The Unknown Bird by Edward Thomas 3. When the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbin along, sung by Doris Day, 1954 4. Mistle thrush, sub-song and song 5....
28.09.2015 - Texts read and Music played 1. Its raining in my heart sung by Buddy Holly, 1959 2. Poem Il pleure dans mon coeur (It rains in my heart) by Paul Verlaine 3. Early morning rain, composed and sung by Gordon Lightfoot, 1966 4. Crying in the rain...
10.09.2015 - Music and texts 1. Gymnopedie no.1 (Jacques Loussier Trio) 2. Background to Satie & discussion of the Gymnopedies 3. Gymnopedie no.1 (Jean-Yves Thibaudet) 4. Gymnopedie no.1 (orch. Debussy) 5. Satie and Debussy 6. Gnossienne no.1 (Anne...
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, Gods 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 – Fingals Cave (Felix Mendelssohn) 2. Storm, from Four Sea Interludes ,from Peter Grimes (Benjamin...
