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 - 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...