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 & Affettuoso)
4. Rudyard Kipling, ‘The River’s Tale’
5. Richard Wagner, ‘Das Rheingold’
6. S.T. Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’
7. Mongolian Music, ‘Healing Soul Spirit Song’
8. John Keats, ‘To the Nile’
9. Ancient Egyptian Music, ‘The Nile’
10. Langston Hughes, ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’
11. J. Kern & O. Hammerstein, ‘Ol’ Man River’ (sung by Paul Robeson)
12. Walt Whitman, ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’ (excerpt)
13. J. Styne & S. Cahn, ‘Brooklyn Bridge’ (sung by Frank Sinatra)
14. B. Smetana, ‘Vltava’ (Die Moldau)
15. A.E. Housman, from ‘A Shopshire Lad’
16. Robert Burns, ‘Ye Banks and Braes o’ Bonnie Doon’
17. Johann Strauss, Jr., ‘The Blue Danube Waltz’
