29.03.2016 - Poems read and Music played 1. Count Basie: Take the A Train 2. John Davidson: Song of a Train 3. Robert Louis Stevenson: From a Railway Carriage 4. Villa Lobos: The Little Train of Caipira, Suite no.2 from Bacchianas Brasilienses 5. Andrew Barton...
29.03.2016 - Poems read and Music played 1. Gerry and the Pacemakers: Youll Never Walk Alone 2. Roger McGough: Out of Work 3. Beatles: Getting Better 4. Adrian Henri: Tea with the Poet 5. Adrian Henri: A Haiku 6. Adrian Henri: Liverpool 8 7. Adrian Henri:...
01.02.2016 - Poems read and Music played:- 1. Paul Muldoon: Why Brownlee Left 2. Seamus Heaney: Digging 3. Seamus Heaney: Death of a Naturalist 4. Seamus Heaney: Mid-Term Break 5. Alasdair Maclean: Death of an Old Woman 6. Jackie Kay: Brendon Gallacher 7....
01.02.2016 - from the 1940s to the early 1960s Poems read and Music played:- 1. Stevie Smith, ‘Not Waving but Drowning’ 2. Elizabeth Jennings, ‘One Flesh’ 3. John Betjeman, ‘Devonshire Street W.1’ 4. John Betjeman,...
28.12.2015 - Texts read and Music played:- 1. Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto no. 8 – Fatto per la Notte di Natale 2. Gospel of St Luke, Ch. 2, vv. 1-7 3. O Come all ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) 4. Christmas, poem by John Betjeman 5. Vaughan Williams: The...
17.12.2015 - Poems read and Music played:- 1. Jodelling Song, from Facade, by Edith Sitwell 2. Im Tal und auf der Höhe, by the Mayrhofner Trio 3. Song of a Man Who is not Loved, by D.H. Lawrence 4. Syrinx, for solo flute, by Claude Debussy 5. Snake, by D.H....
30.11.2015 - Poems read and Music played:- 1. Elgar: Cello Concerto /Adagio) 2. Eliot: ‘Morning at the Window’ 3. Eliot: ‘Prelude I’ 4. Debussy: ‘Clair de Lune’ 5. Eliot: ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ 6....
12.11.2015 - 1. Leisure, by W.H. Davies 2. Sospiri, by Edward Elgar 3. Adlestrop, by Edward Thomas 4. The Banks of Green Willow, by George Butterworth 5. The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost 6. Eclogue, by Gerald Finzi 7. In a Station of the Metro, by Ezra...
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...
