13.03.2017 - Texts read and Music played: ‚Roses of Picardy‘, sung by Peter Dawson ‚The Washing on the Siegfried Line‘, Flanagan & Allen ‚The White Cliffs of Dover‘, Vera Lynn ‚Mad Dogs and Englishmen‘, Noel...
13.03.2017 - Texts read and Music played: Sigh no more, ladies, from Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing, Peter Warlock London, William Blake London, Benjamin Britten The Sick Rose, William Blake Elegy (The Sick Rose), from Serenade for Tenor, Horn 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...
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....
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‘...
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 &...
22.09.2016 - Texts read and Music played: 1. First Day at School (Roger McGough) 2. Old School Yard (Cat Stevens) 3. The Schoolboy (William Blake) 4. Surfin‘ USA (The Beach Boys) 5. Hard Times (Charles Dickens) 6. My Early Life (Winston Churchill) 7....
20.09.2016 - Texts read and Music played: 1. The Adventures of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) 2. Run, Rabbit, Run (Flanagan & Allen) 3. The Owl and The Pussycat (Edward Lear) 4. Clair de Lune (Debussy) 5. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis...
29.08.2016 - Texts read and Music played Writing Autobiography (Lee) Pavane de la Belle au Bois Dormant, from Ma Mѐre l’Oye (Ravel) Cider with Rosie: First Light (Lee) A Cotswold Hill Tune (Orr) Long Summer (Lee) Cider with Rosie: First Bite of the Apple...