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....
10.01.2017 - Alan Bennett: ‘The Lady in the Van’ Five of us (Sylvia, Sandra, Heinz, Tom and Andrew) discuss the book by Alan Bennett: about the eccentric, stubborn and demanding woman who lived in a van for 15 years in the drive of the writer in...
14.12.2016 - The first book for discussion is ‘Light Years’ by the American author James Salter, a novel about lost lives and the elusiveness of happiness.
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....
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...
