1. Beethoven, String Quartet op.127 in E flat.
The opening chords demanding attention in a never to be forgotten & quite unique manner.
2. Olivier reading from Hamlet;
" So oft it chances in particular men
That for some vicious mole of nature in them,
As in their birth, wherin they are not guilty
( since nature cannot choose his origin )
By their o'ergrowth of some complexion,
Oft breaking down the pales & forts of reason,
Or by some habit, that too much o'erleavens
The form of plausive manners - that these men,
Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,
His virtues else, be they as pure as grace,
Shall in the general censure take corruption
From that particular fault.
Jean - Philippe Rameau.
Les Fetes D'Hebe.
The great musette from the last act of this opera is beyond compare.
The very essence of pastoral love, beyond anything else I have heard.
W. B Yeats
A Prayer for my daughter. ( example ).
" I have walked and prayed for this young child an hour
And heard the sea-wind scream upon the tower,
And under the arches of the bridge, and scream
In the elms above the flooded stream;
Imagining in excited reverie
That the future years had come,
Dancing to a frenzied drum,
Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
Music for a viol consort
Preferably 17th. cent. English
T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets
Paul Scofield - Have had both Robert Speight & Alec Guinness ( all very good )
Dylan Thomas ( himself)
Poem in October
Herewith an example of my diet upon this special day
gamba
The opening chords demanding attention in a never to be forgotten & quite unique manner.
2. Olivier reading from Hamlet;
" So oft it chances in particular men
That for some vicious mole of nature in them,
As in their birth, wherin they are not guilty
( since nature cannot choose his origin )
By their o'ergrowth of some complexion,
Oft breaking down the pales & forts of reason,
Or by some habit, that too much o'erleavens
The form of plausive manners - that these men,
Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,
His virtues else, be they as pure as grace,
Shall in the general censure take corruption
From that particular fault.
Jean - Philippe Rameau.
Les Fetes D'Hebe.
The great musette from the last act of this opera is beyond compare.
The very essence of pastoral love, beyond anything else I have heard.
W. B Yeats
A Prayer for my daughter. ( example ).
" I have walked and prayed for this young child an hour
And heard the sea-wind scream upon the tower,
And under the arches of the bridge, and scream
In the elms above the flooded stream;
Imagining in excited reverie
That the future years had come,
Dancing to a frenzied drum,
Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
Music for a viol consort
Preferably 17th. cent. English
T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets
Paul Scofield - Have had both Robert Speight & Alec Guinness ( all very good )
Dylan Thomas ( himself)
Poem in October
Herewith an example of my diet upon this special day
gamba
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