17.12.2015 - Poems read and Music played:- 1. Jodelling Song, from Facade, by Edith Sitwell 2. Im Tal und auf der Höhe, by the Mayrhofner Trio 3. Song of a Man Who is not Loved, by D.H. Lawrence 4. Syrinx, for solo flute, by Claude Debussy 5. Snake, by D.H....
12.11.2015 - 1. Leisure, by W.H. Davies 2. Sospiri, by Edward Elgar 3. Adlestrop, by Edward Thomas 4. The Banks of Green Willow, by George Butterworth 5. The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost 6. Eclogue, by Gerald Finzi 7. In a Station of the Metro, by Ezra...
02.11.2015 - 20th.c. Poetry in English (1/6) Late Victorian and Edwardian Poetry 1. Dawn, from Four Sea Interludes (Britten) 2. Dover Beach, poem by Matthew Arnold 3. Moonlight, from Four Sea Interludes (Britten) 4. Sea Fever, poem by John Masefield 5. Sea...
08.10.2015 - Texts read and Music played 1. Beethovem Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, second movement 2. Poem, The Unknown Bird by Edward Thomas 3. When the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbin along, sung by Doris Day, 1954 4. Mistle thrush, sub-song and song 5....
28.09.2015 - Texts read and Music played 1. Its raining in my heart sung by Buddy Holly, 1959 2. Poem Il pleure dans mon coeur (It rains in my heart) by Paul Verlaine 3. Early morning rain, composed and sung by Gordon Lightfoot, 1966 4. Crying in the rain...
10.09.2015 - Music and texts 1. Gymnopedie no.1 (Jacques Loussier Trio) 2. Background to Satie & discussion of the Gymnopedies 3. Gymnopedie no.1 (Jean-Yves Thibaudet) 4. Gymnopedie no.1 (orch. Debussy) 5. Satie and Debussy 6. Gnossienne no.1 (Anne...
23.07.2015 - Texts read and Music played Summer is Icumen In, sung by the Hilliard Ensemble An English Suite – Pastoral, by Hubert Parry, played by the English String Orchestra, conducted by William Boughton ‘Summer in the City, sung by The Lovin...
11.06.2015 - The first of three programmes on film music and poetic texts (poems and novels) that inspired films. 1. Mammy, sung by Al Jolson (1927) 2. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails, sung Fred Astaire in Top Hat (1934) 3. As time goes by, music by Max Steiner,...
27.04.2015 - Texts read & Music played 1. ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare, from ‘Kiss me, Kate, by Cole Porter 2. ‘This royal throne , from Shakespeares ‘Richard II 3. ‘Harfleur, from William Waltons music for the...
20.04.2015 - Texts read and Music played ‘On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring’, Frederick Delius ‘Spring: the Cuckoo’, William Shakespeare ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’, Robert Browning Symphony no. 6...
