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THE
WIDOW’S TALE

JUST THE
FACTS, MA'AM

ON
LANGUAGE

ON
BEGGARS

ON
APRICOTS

Henry Speck

The Middle
East - 1988

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Henry Speck

Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait -1990

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NON-FICTION

Ramses

Ramses the
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SCRAPBOOK

The
Lightning Painter
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The Hill
Country Beyond
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The Llano
String Quartet
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The Jawbone
of an Ass
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Cymbeline - Act IV, Scene 2

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Fear no more the heat o’ the sun;
Nor the furious winter’s rages,
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and taken thy wages;
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney sweepers come to dust.

AN ANTHOLOGY OF
SHORTER POEMS

W H Auden (1907-1973)

The Shield of Achilles

In Memory of W.B. Yeats

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

A Haiku

C P Cavafy (1863-1933)

Ithaka

The God Abandons Antony

Odysseas Elytis (1911-1996)

‘Εϕερα τη ζωη μου ωs εδω

A E Housman (1859-1936)

A Shropshire Lad, LIV

Alexander Korbay (1846-1913)

No, de se baj, több is veszett Mohacsmal!

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

And Thus in Nineveh

Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968)

Ed é subito sera (And suddenly it is evening)

Antico inverno (Ancient winter)

George Seferis (1900-1971)

ΜΥΦΙΣΤΟΡΗΜΑ: ΚΙ῎

Mythistorema, 17

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Cymbeline - Act IV, Scene 2

The Tempest - Act IV, Scene 1

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

“Frater Ave atque Vale”

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

Elegy

Fern Hill

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

When You are Old

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Easter, 1916

A SELECTION OF MUSIC

Jussi Björling (1911-1960)

Rossini, Stabat Mater, "Cujus animam" (1938)

Bizet, Pearl Fishers, “Au fond du temple sainte”
with Robert Merrill (1917-2004)

Voice of Firestone (1950)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Ein Deutsches Requiem, Cond. Klemper with
Schwarzkopf and Fischer-Dieskau

Enrico Caruso (1873-1921)

Cohan, “Over There” (1918)

Bizet, “Agnus Dei" (1935)

Verdi, Otello, “Si pel ciel” with Titta Ruffo (1877-1953)

Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor, The Sextet with
Galli-Curci, Egener, De Luca, Bada, Journet (1917)

Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1936)

de Lisle, “La Marseillaise”

Rubenstein, “Persian Love Song”

Ibert, The Death of Don Quixote

Boris Christoff (1914-1993)

Traditional, “The Song of the Volga Boatmen” (1959)

Radost, “Siberian Prisoner’s Song“

Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov, Death of Boris Pt 1 (1959)

Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov, Death of Boris Pt 2 (1959)

Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

A Village Romeo and Juliet, “Walk to the Paradise Garden”
conducted Sir Andrew Davis (2000)

Victoria de los Angeles (1923-2005)

Puccini, Madame Butterfly, “Un bel di vedremo”

Puccini, Madame Butterfly, "Vieni la Sera” with Jussi Björling (1959)

Giuseppe de Luca (1876-1950)

Verdi, Ernani, “O sommo Carlo” (1930)

Donizetti, La Favorita “A tanto amor” (1918)

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Enigma Variations - Variation IX (Adagio) - “Nimrod”
directed Sir Colin Davis (1927-2013)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-2012)

Schubert, “Der Erlkönig”

Schubert “Die Götter Griechenlands”

Hans Hotter (1909-2003)

Wagner, Die Walküre, “Wotan’s Abschied” (1965)

Julis Patzak (1898-1974)

Beethoven, Fidelio - “Gott! Welch' Dunkel hier!” (1950)

Zinka Milanov (1906-1989)

Verdi, La Forza del Destino, “Pace, pace mio Dio!’” (1958)

Puccini, Tosca, Love Duet, Act I with Jussi Björling, Pt 1

Puccini, Tosca, Love Duet, Act I with Jussi Björling, Pt 2

Claudia Muzio (1889-1936)

Verdi, La traviata, "Teneste la Promessa... Addio del Passato” (1935)

Rosa Ponselle (1897-1981)

Bellini, Norma, ”Casta Diva” (1928)

Bellini, Norma, ”Mira Norma” with Marion Telva (1929)

Lawrence Tibbett (1896-1960)

Verdi, Simon Boccanegra, with Ezio Pinza (1892-1957)

Verdi, Simon Boccanegra, “Plebe! Patrizi!”

Verdi, Simon Boccanegra, Act I, "Figlia, a tal nome palpito"

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