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:...
10.09.2018 - Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince Texts read and music played: Hesketh Pearson: In Gaol (from The Life of Oscar Wilde) Hesketh Pearson: Escape to France (from The Life of Oscar Wilde) Film Review of The Happy Prince (2018), dir. Rupert Everett Oscar...
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 - ‚A Week in December‘ (2010), Sebastian Faulks Georg, Heinz, Sandra and Andrew discuss this richly entertaining and highly rewarding novel. London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven...
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:...
11.07.2018 - Angie, Alex, Heinz, Sandra and Andrew discuss the novel. ‚Haunted by a freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they...
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...
06.06.2018 - Sandra, Alex, Heinz and Andrew discuss the novel. Schmuel – a young idealistic student – has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem, taking a live-in job as a companion to a cantankerous old man. But Schmuel quickly becomes obsessed with...
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 –...
