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...
22.08.2016 - Texts read and Music played: In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) The Mountain Summits Sleep (Alcman) Descriptive sketches taken during a pedestrian tour in the Alps, 1792 (Wordsworth) The Call of the Wild (Robert Service) Rocky Mountain High...
28.07.2016 - Shakespeare and Music (anticipating the Innsbruck Hofburg Promenade Concert, Sat July 30) Texts read and Music played 1. Overture to ‘Hamlet’ (Shostakovich) 2. ‘To be, or not to be’ (read by Michael Sheen, with Music by...
18.07.2016 - The Somme, July 1916 Text read and Music played: 1. Elgar: ‘Sospiri’ (1914) 2. R. Brooke: ‘The Soldier’ (1915) 3. ‘It’s a Long Way to Tipperary’ (1914) 4. Capt. C. May: Diary entry (July 1, 1916) 5. Holst:...
23.06.2016 - Texts read and Music played 1. Dylan: ‘Chronicles’, Volume 1, several extracts 2. ‘The Times they are a-changin’ ‘ (1963) 3. ‘Talkin’ New York’ (1962) 4. ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’...
23.06.2016 - Music played and texts read: 1. Gymnopedie no. 1 (Jacques Loussier Trio) 2. Gymnopedie no. 1 (Jean-Yves Thibaudet) 3. Gymnopedie no. 1 (orchestrated by Debussy) 4. Gnossienne no. 1 (Anne Queffelec) 5. Gnossienne no. 1 (Jacques Loussier Trio) 6....
30.05.2016 - Poetry Cafe May 26, 2016 John Clare (1793 – 1864), Nature Poet Texts by Clare read and Music played: 1. Der Tageloehner-Poet 2, The Peasant Poet 3. Sommerabend 4. Summer Evening 5. Morning 6. Remembrances 7. Butterworth: English Idyll no. 1...
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...
