13.12.2018 - Death of Wilfred Owen, November 1918 Texts read and Music played: Wilfred Owen: Spring Offensive Wilfred Owen: Futility Benjamin Britten: War Requiem – Move him… & Lacrimosa Wilfred Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth Benjamin Britten:...
13.12.2018 - Isle of Skye Texts read and Music played: Extracts from travelogues by: Seton Gordon Alexander Nicolson Alexander Smith Ratcliffe Barnett Thomas Nicol Walter Scott J.J. Bell H.V. Morton J.A. MacCulloch A.C. Swinburne Dr Johnson R.L. Stevenson...
15.10.2018 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) Texts read and Music played: Letter from Stevenson to his mother, Oct 1874 Vaughan Williams, The Vagabond, from Songs of Travel (Stevenson) “I travel not to go anywhere, but...
15.10.2018 - Paris: poems and chansons Texts read and music played: Musette (accordeons): ça, c’est Paris! Baudelaire: Les Yeux des Pauvres, from Le Spleen de Paris (Petits Poѐmes en Prose, 1864) Baudelaire: Recueillement, transl. Meditation Debussy:...
04.09.2018 - Debussy’s Prélude à l’Aprѐs-midi d’un faune Texts read and music played Debussy: Prélude…. Faune (start) Mallarmé: Prélude …. (start) Paul Verlaine: C’est l’extase langoureuse (music by Debussy) Stephen Walsh: Debussy (2018),...
13.08.2018 - Poetry Cafe, July 26, 2018 Sisley at Moret, Monet in London Playlist: texts read and music played: 1. Debussy: ‘Jardins sous la pluie’ 2. from ‘Debussy, Stephen Walsh (2018) 3. Mallarme on Sisley 4. Debussy: ‘Reflets dans...
01.08.2018 - Texts read & music played: Match of the Day (signature tune) Albert Camus: Le Premier Homme A.E. Housman: Is my Team Ploughing? (poem) George Butterworth: Is my Team Ploughing? (music) You’ll Never Walk Along (Kop Choir) Peter Handke:...
02.07.2018 - Syrian Poetry, with Music on the Oriental Lute With Georg Schaermer (Caritas Tirol) and Georg Naser (Oriental Lute) Texts read: 1. Monzer Masri: ‘Wenn Ich unbedingt einen Gott anbeten muss’ 2. Mohamed al-Maghut: ‘Die Angst des...
28.05.2018 - Texts read and Music played: Wordsworth: Sonnet on Andreas Hofer (‘Of mortal parents is the Hero born…?’) Andreas-Hofer-Marsch, Gustav Mahr Mary Shelley: after visiting Hofer’s Sandhof (1842) Reschensee: Debussy –...
18.04.2018 - Texts read & Music played Comedian Harmonists (Tea for Two, 1934) Owen Hamilton: Tyrolean Summer (1934) Binnie Hale: As Time Goes By (1932) Extracts from The Times & The Manchester Guardian from the Musical ‘Cabaret’: Tomorrow...
09.04.2018 - Texts read and music played: from Dominic Seabrook’s ‘White Heat’ Beatles: The Long and Winding Road Elvis Presley: In the Ghetto Quote from ‘New Musical Express’ Roger McGough: Crazy Bastard Michael Horovitz: Frances...
09.04.2018 - Texts read and music played: Canned Heat: On the Road Again Joni Mitchell: Woodstock The Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil The Who: Tommy Percy Bysshe Shelley: Adonais (Stanzas 39 & 52) Denny Zager & Rick Evans: In the Year 2525 John...
09.04.2018 - Texts read & music played: Joan Baez: We Shall Overcome Patrick Searle & Maureen McConville: Paris May 10-11, 1968 The Rolling Stones: Street Fighting Man The Rolling Stones: Jumping Jack Flash Arthur Marwick: The 1960s (extract) About the...
12.02.2018 - Texts read & music played: Bob Dylan: Masters of War Bob Dylan: All Along the Watchtower Adrian Mitchell: To Whom It May Concern Aretha Franklin: Respect Georgie Fame: Bonnie and Clyde The Graduate (extract) Simon & Garfunkel: Mrs Robisnon...
