POETRY AND MUSIC

QUAKER MEETING HOUSE, MONKSTOWN

9th April 2014, 7.30 pm

In aid of The Homeless and Hungry in Dun Laoghaire

Music: Solo Flute; Elizabeth Petcu (Ex RTE Concert Orchestra)
Poetry: Patrick Semple

PROGRAMME

Nigel Bell   INTRODUCTION: The Homeless in Dun Laoghaire.
Elizabeth Petcu   INTRODUCTION to the music for this evening.
Patrick Semple   INTRODUCTION to poetry.
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MILTON: (1608–1674) ‘ON HIS BLINDNESS’
WORDSWORTH: (1770–1850) ‘UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE’
SHELLEY: (1792–1822) ‘OZYMANDIAS OF EGYPT’

Descant Recorder:   ‘Trotto’   Anon 14th Century

GOLDSMITH (1730–1774) ‘THE DESERTED VILLAGE’ (Extracts) ‘Ill fares the land ….’  ‘The schoolmaster’
TENNYSON (1809–1892) ‘THE LADY OF SHALOTT’ (Extracts) vv 1,3,6,9
T.S.ELIOT (1888–1965) ‘THE LOVESONG OF J ALFRED PRUFROCK’ (Extract) ‘CHORUS FROM “THE ROCK” (Extract)

Irish Flute:   ‘Danny Boy’    Traditional Air

JOHN BETJEMAN (1906-1984) ‘SUN AND FUN’
EUGENIO MONTALE (1896-1981) ‘THE LEMONS’
SEAMUS HEANEY (1939–2013) ‘DIGGING’

Flute:   ‘Waltz’    Karg Elert

RICHARD MURPHY: (1927-    ) ‘THE CLEGGAN DISASTER’ (Extracts)

Soprano Recorder:    ‘Largo from Concerto in C major’    Vivaldi

INTERVAL

PATRICK KAVANAGH: (1904-1967) ‘THE RICH TRAMP’
R. S. THOMAS: (1913-2000) ‘NIGHT AND MORNING’
MARY OLIVER: (1935-    ) ‘LINGERING IN HAPPINESS’,  ‘SUCH SINGING IN THE WILD BRANCHES’

Flute:   ‘Opening Cadenza from Le Merle Noir’    Messiaen.

 Presto from Fantasy in  G minor’     Telemann

ROBERT FROST: (1874–1963) ‘THE HIRED MAN’ (Extracts)

Treble Recorder:   ‘Rondeau’    Bach

PATRICK SEMPLE: (1939 –     ) ‘THE RECTORY DOG’
ROBERT FROST: (1874-1963) ‘STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING’
YEATS: (1865–1939): ‘HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN’,  ‘WHEN YOU ARE OLD AND GREY’

Flute:   ‘Minuet and Badinerie from Suite in B Minor’    Bach

Approximately 80 people attended this event and contributed € 1,745 to helping the homeless and hungry people of Dun Laoghaire. We thank them  for their support


 

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