13.06.2017 - 50 Years on: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Playlist: Texts read & Music played: Opening track Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ‚Tune in, turn on, drop out‘, Timothy Leary ‚Almost metaphysical urban poetry‘,...
07.06.2017 - Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) Novelist, short story writer….and poet! Texts read and Music played: Chopin: Romanza (Larghetto), Piano Concerto no.1 (Arthur Rubinstein, LSO/ Barbirolli, 1937) Edith Wharton: The Parting Day Henry...
17.05.2017 - Texts read & Music played: 1. Robert Schumann: Humoresque 2. Emily Dickinson: I dwell in possibility 3. A curious Cloud surprised the Sky 4. Eduard Grieg: Morning Mood, from Peer Gynt, Suite no.1 5. The Day came slow – till Five...
11.05.2017 - New England (1) Texts read and Music played: Pilgrims and Puritans, Stephen Vincent Benet The Housatonic at Stockbridge, from Three Places in New England, Charles Ives The ‚St. Gaudens‘ in Boston Common (Col. Shaw and his...
28.03.2017 - Texts read and Music played: Stupendo e fantastico lago, Ettore Cappelletti Di Provenza il mar, from La Traviata, Verdi Anne lacus tantos, from Georgics Book 2, Virgil Funiculi, Funicula, Luigi Denza La Chartreuse de Parme, Stendhal I Promessi...
13.03.2017 - Texts read and Music played: ‚Roses of Picardy‘, sung by Peter Dawson ‚The Washing on the Siegfried Line‘, Flanagan & Allen ‚The White Cliffs of Dover‘, Vera Lynn ‚Mad Dogs and Englishmen‘, Noel...
13.03.2017 - Texts read and Music played: Sigh no more, ladies, from Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing, Peter Warlock London, William Blake London, Benjamin Britten The Sick Rose, William Blake Elegy (The Sick Rose), from Serenade for Tenor, Horn and...
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,...
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....
20.10.2016 - Poetry Cafe, Oct 13, 2016 Texts read & Music played 1. John Steinbeck, ‚Cannery Row‘ (River Carmel) 2. William Wordsworth, ‚Composed Upon Westminster Bridge‘ 3. G.F. Handel, ‚Water Music‘ (Minuet &...
