01.12.2020 - from Scotland via Australia to the Somme Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Simon Armitage: ‚The Bed‘ (Armistice Day, 2020) 2. Hymn: ‚Abide with Me‘ 3. Frederick Delius: ‚In a Summer Garden‘ (1912) 4. Leon...
01.12.2020 - Playlist: Texts read and music played:- 1. John Donne, ‚No man is an island…‘ 2. John Muir: ‚Climb the mountains…‘ 3. Melody: ‚Over the Hills and Far Away‘ 4. Daniel Defoe: Journey Thro‘ the...
09.11.2020 - Australia (4) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Quiz on Ned Kelly 2. Ballad on the Kelly Gang 3. Ballad, ‚The Kellys‘ 4. Douglas Stewart, ‚Australia’s the violent country…‘ 5. Peter Carey, from...
09.11.2020 - Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Voices in the Wind, from Spirit Alive, Christian Benton 2. George Crabbe, ‚The Borough‘ 3. Mary Gilmore, ‚Old Botany Bay‘ 4. Instructions form King George III’s Government to...
30.09.2020 - Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Percy Grainger: Gumsuckers‘ March 2. Dorothea MacKellar: My Country (1911) 3. Peter Sculthorpe: Sonatina, 1st movement 4. James Vance Marshall: Walkabout 5. A.E. Housman: The Land of Lost Content 6....
30.09.2020 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Dorothea MacKellar: I Love a Sunburnt Country 2. Bruce Chatwin: from ‚The Songlines‘ 3. Advance Australia Fair (national anthem) 4. a ballad: Botany Bay – A New Song 5. James Kevel: A...
27.08.2020 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Keri Hulme: The Bone People (1984) 2. Patricia Grace: Potiki (1996) 3. Rangitikei River Song 4. C.C. Bowen: Moonlight in New Zealand 5. Samuel Butler: Erewhon (1872) 6. Keith Sinclair: The Origins of the...
27.08.2020 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Film music from ‚The Piano‘: A Wild and Distant Shore 2. Karu, Karu (a Maori fishing hymn) 3. Early Maori verse 4. Extract from Captain Cook’s Journal 5.Charles Darwin: Leaving New Zealand...
27.08.2020 - Singapore Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Rimsky-Korsakoff: Sheheradade – Sinbad 2. Bai Juyi: Song of Past Feelings 3. Texts on a mirror and bowl, from the Tang Dynasty 4. Du Fu: extracts from his poems 5. Plaque on Raffles Statue,...
09.07.2020 - Texts read and Music played:- 1. Goesta Agren: It is not true … 2. Goethe: two quotations 3. Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf: The Writer’s Rights (2008) 4. W.H. Davies: Leisure 5. Parody of ‚Leisure‘ (in The Times newspaper) 6. Dr....
08.07.2020 - Playlist: texts read and music played 1. John Donne: No Man is an island 2. King James‘ Bible (1611): Exodus, Ch. 9 3. Daniel Defoe: Journal of the Plague Year (1722) 4. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (1719) 5. Handel: Oboe Concerto, op.3,...
24.06.2020 - Corona-Verse (1) Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Definition of ‚Corona‘ virus 2. Ancient Greece: 5th.c. BC music 3. Aeschylus: Suffering as a learning process 4. Lacrimosa: music from the Roman 1st.c. AD 5. Marcus Aurelius:...
14.05.2020 - Rhymes, Chants, Poems and Songs No. 4 Suzanne Vega: Tom’s Diner Rhythmic poems by pupils, NMS Inzing Beatles: She’s Leaving Home Roger McGough: Comeclose and Sleepnow The Rolling Stones: Let’s Spend the Night Together Lemn Sissay: Colour...
11.03.2020 - Rhymes, Chants, Poems and Songs No. 3 The Merseybeats: Wishing and Hoping Kenneth Steven: Wishing Robert Burns: My love is like a red, red rose, … Rhyming messages on Valentine cards… An acrostic poem: V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-E I remember well, …...
