Podcasts about Ivor Gurney

The rural landscapes of Gloucestershire have inspired many classical composers - including Herbert Howells, Gerald Finzi, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ivor Gurney, to name just a few. In this programme, Rose Ferraby finds out about the links between landscape and music and learns about the extraordinary cluster of composers who were associated with Gloucester Cathedral in the early part of the 20th century. She talks to academics and musicians about how a love of the Gloucestershire countryside influenced composers of the time and visits some of the beauty spots which inspired them - including Chosen Hill, believed to be the only hill to have a piano quartet dedicated to it. At Gloucester Cathedral, she hears the choristers sing the Gloucester Service, a setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis by Herbert Howells, and meets the cathedral's director of music - who was himself taught by Howells at the Royal College of Music.Produced by Emma Campbell

Scott Robert Shaw's debut "The English Tenor" takes us on a beautifully performed journey through a who's who of great English composers and their vocal works. The names Ivor Gurney, Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi and Roger Quilter are synonymous with English Song, and a Golden Age of British music. The wide variety of accompanying instruments and artists, the broad range of text settings, and the mix of cornerstone works of the repertoire alongside lesser-known cycles make "The English Tenor" a thrilling debut album.Five Elizabethan Songs - Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)Along the Field Ralph - Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)Four Songs, Op. 14 - Roger Quilter (1877-1953)8 Folksong Arrangements for High Voice and Harp - Benjamin Britten (1973-1976)Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18 - Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)Help support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber and Apple Classical. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber#AppleClassical Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.comThis album is broadcast with the permission of Sean Dacy from Rosebrook Media.

Philip Larkin was just five years old when Hardy died in 1928, but this English poet and novelist was going to have a profound influence on Larkin's writing. To discuss some of the connections between Larkin and Hardy, Lyn is joined by  Emeritus  Professor of English at the University of Hull Jane Thomas and composer Arthur Keegan. Thomas Hardy Novels: Jude the Obscure, Far From the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, A Pair of Blue Eyes,  Thomas Hardy Collections: The Dynasts, Winter Words, Poems 1912-13 Thomas Hardy poems: Drummer Hodge, Neutral Tones, Afterwards, Lying Awake, A Circular Philip Larkin poems: No Road, The Mower, Aubade, Skin Other references: DH Lawrence, Sappho, Darwin, JS Mill, WB Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Gustav Holst, Gerald Finzie, Ivor Gurney, Nicholas Moore (composer), Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst, Robin Milford, Henry Handel Richardson, Early Larkin  by James Underwood (Bloomsbury 2021) Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love by James Booth (Bloomsbury 2015) The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ed Philip Larkin (Oxford 1973) Required Writing-  Miscellaneous Pieces by Philip Larkin (1955-1982) Faber 1983 (‘Wanted, a good Hardy critic') Astonishing the Brickwork by James L. Orwin (Dancing Sisters, 2022) https://philiplarkin.com/product/astonishing-the-brickwork-philip-larkin-set-to-music-jim-orwin/ Peaches by The Stranglers (1977)/ Budmouth Dears by Thomas Hardy  (first published in The Dynasts, 1908), Elegies for Emma/Elegies for Tom https://www.arthurkeegan.co.uk/ Produced by Lyn Lockwood and Gavin Hogg Please email Lyn at lynlockwood70@yahoo.co.uk with any questions or comments PLS Membership and information: philiplarkin.com  Theme music: 'The Horns Of The Morning' by The Mechanicals Band. Buy 'The Righteous Jazz' at their Bandcamp page: https://themechanicalsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-righteous-jazz

‘Wandelaar in juni' Zomer, 1911. Samen met zijn vriend Ivor Gurney, maakt de 19-jarige Herbert Howells wandelingen in Gloucestershire, Engeland. Zijn indrukken verwerkt Howells o.a. in zijn Summer Idyls. Het deeltje June-Haze is een vergeten parel. Herbert Howells Summer Idyls: III. June-Haze Matthew Schellhorn, piano (album: Howells; Piano Music, vol.1)

This week, BunnDebrett Quintet. I would say two mini albums here with two tracks and possibly a full length, the sound is good. What do you guys think? This group is from London, UK. Set 1: Eternal Jazz Project What About Me 03:53 Evgeny Bardyuzha Beauty in Recursion 03:01 Laura Dreyer Monterey Nights 07:57 Lunar5 Colours in my Head 03:31 Set 2: Panic Ensemble Every Night 02:41 Pavlova Wind Quintet Prelude no. 2 (Ivor Gurney, arr. Christopher Britton) 00:53 BDQ Bad Girl 03:28 BDQ Could This Be Love 02:29 Philipp Weigl Roads 04:15 BunnDebrett Quintet TRUTH IN MY TEARS 03:13 BunnDebrett Quintet WASN'T IT YOU 02:54 Set 3: BunnDebrett Quintet AFFINITY 13:57 BunnDebrett Quintet Hipnosis 07:15 BunnDebrett Quintet Spiral 06:11 Scott Lawlor Everlasting Light 22:24 Scott Lawlor Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love 26:40 Scott Lawlor Whispering Voices 09:29 Set 4: Low Strung Death and All His Friends 03:38 Melleefresh & deadmau5 Afterhours (deadmau5 Smoothy House Remix) 05:43 Molotov Cocktail Piano American Girl 03:34 Mannheim Steamroller Heritage 04:34 Molotov Cocktail Piano Kids in America 03:24 Peter Hollens Shenandoah (feat. Anna Gilbert) 02:47 Peter Hollens Sad War 02:58 Peter Hollens Mad World 02:53 Take 6 Delilah 03:49 The Dear Abbeys Who Are You 04:42 The Dear Abbeys From Eden 03:16 The Dear Abbeys Helplessly Hoping 02:34 Bette & Wallet Jeannette 04:32 Bruce Guynn and Big Rain Waiting 03:56 Set 5: macabro Blue Glow 04:05 Mandrake Root Build and Burn 04:43 Mark Cook At The Brew House 03:37 Master's Monkeys Shovel me under 03:11 This will complete today's program and thanks so much for listening!

***This episode deals covers topics including eating disorders, mental illness and the Holocaust. Kate talks about them incredibly respectfully and not in graphic details, but for listeners that would rather sit this one out, we understand***It's our last episode of 2022 and this time, we're speaking to the exceptional Dr. Kate Kennedy, broadcaster, academic, cellist and writer, who specialises in combining biography, words and music. She is also the Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-writing and a research fellow at the University of Oxford.We talk to her from the crypt of St. Clement Danes (with somebody's wedding going on above our heads), discussing her own experiences in life and in music, and about her current work on her book, Cello, an autobiography of the instrument itself and its musicians. We were particularly interested in her biography of war poet and musician, Ivor Gurney, speaking about his own struggles with mental illness and confinement to an asylum in later life. (Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney, Princeton Press, 2021)We're incredibly grateful to Kate for her eloquence and candidness about her own encounters with injury and struggles during her teenage years and early adulthood. It truly is a pleasure to listen to her, and interviewing her was such an enriching experience, and we cannot wait to read her future works.Follow Kate on TwitterKate's websiteFind TMDTA on all the socials at @tmdtapodcastOur website is: www.thingsmusiciansdonttalkabout.comSupport us on Patreon for £3 a month and get access to extra episodes and content!Or buy us a KofiIt's over and out from us for the year, and wishing you all an incredibly soul-warming holiday and New Year!Love Becca, Katy and Hattie xx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, on the podcast, we feature a latin album from Ish Records in switzerland. Besides that, we'll play tons of tunes from around the landscape. Hope you're all doing well. Thanks for listening to the program! Set 1: Lauge & Baba Gnohm Brought to a Standstill 02:57 Pablo Color El Beso Y La Noche 04:05 Pablo Color & Berlin Lama Los Claveles 36 05:03 Pablo Color & Suso Saiz Alpha Y Omega 06:08 Heather Shannon The Others 03:51 Set 2: Paolo Pavan Border Line 05:14 Pavlova Wind Quintet Prelude no. 3 (Ivor Gurney, arr. Christopher Britton) 01:44 Chris Britton Prelude in B Flat Major BWV866 (JS Bach) 01:34 Chris Rolin Havana Nights 04:08 Connor B Fitz Strange But True 04:30 Curl Beauty Earth 05:04 Daniel Shoskes Suite in B Flat Major II Courante (Prince Hyacinth de Lobkowitz) 01:44 Set 3: Hans Christian Beyond All Ages 11:33 Hector Mukomol Immersion 15:42 Howard Ferre Wax Branches 04:11 Ian Underwood You Heard My! 07:05 Intersonic Subformation Microbes in Microsphere 03:51 Jamie Janover Steep Trees 07:56 Jeff Wahl Firefly 01:46 Jeremy Moyer Spring on Wutai Mountain 02:27 Joel Bruce Wallach New Moon Spirit Vision 03:57 Judson Hurd Happy Song 02:27 Kaissa Alea So 05:16 Set 4: Binaural Space Ghostbuster Busters 07:10 Binaural Space Jeepers Halloweepers 07:52 WBBY 34 Music education network for the visually impaired 00:37 Binaural Space Good Mornin' 03:02 Binaural Space Remember the Dream 05:01 Binaural Space We Look Tired 03:10 Binaural Space Old Me Knew Me 11:14 Acappella All Over the World 01:45 Alicia Ellison Grant Brave Soldiers of the USA 03:17 Ashana Ra Ma Da Sa 08:21 Bernadette Yao Angel's Love 05:07 Gaelynn Lea Swallowtail Jig 03:52 Jim Wilson In Every Heart 04:55 Matthew Schoening Spirit 06:35 Ninja Sex Party Rock with You 03:32 This completes the program and thanks o much for everything!

Michael sat down to chat with Leo Live today. Leo is a singer-songwriter, musician, visual and recording artist, performer/entertainer and the founder of tuneriver.com. Hear stories of how he and a collaborator put together an amazing production inspired by the works of World War 1 poet, Ivor Gurney, and how songwriters can find great work writing personal songs for special occasions. Check out more of Leo's music at https://www.leosaunders.com. For songwriting challenges and more uplifting stories, subscribe to the newsletter at the bottom of the page of https://www.writesongsyoulove.com. Join the facebook community page by clicking HERE. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/writesongsyoulove/message

A collection of poems by the Gloucestershire-born English poet Ivor Gurney describing his feelings about the First World War, during which he served on the Western Front and was wounded by a mustard gas attack, and its aftermath. Genre(s): Poetry, Single author --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/3daudiobooks0/support

This week Patrick covers the best in Irish and International history publications for October 2021. Books covered on the show include: 'Bretons and Britons: The Fight for Identity' with Barry Cunliffe, 'Dwellers in the Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney' with Kate Kennedy, 'To Rule the Skies: General Thomas S. Power and the Rise of Strategic Air Command in the Cold War' with Brent D. Ziarnick, 'When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present' with Nick Bryant and 'The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance' with Judy Batalion.  

In this episode, Alice talks to acclaimed composer Dr Anthony Ritchie about his oratorio 'Gallipoli to the Somme', which was commissioned for the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra and City Choir Dunedin as part of the centenary commemorations of the First World War. Also joining us is Dr Kate Kennedy, a musician, librettist and expert on the poetry and songs of WW1. Both have lots to say about how music can deepen our understanding of war and its impacts.  Kate has recently published a biography of the poet and composer Ivor Gurney, and that gets us chatting about the mix of high-brow poetry and more bawdy trench song which have together shaped our habits of visualising the First World War.  A soldier during the war, Gurney suffered a series of breakdowns and spent his last fifteen years confined to a mental asylum. The songs he composed reflect real tensions in the ways in which he and his contemporaries regarded the war, for example by undercutting celebratory verses with disturbing harmonies that evoke violence and trauma. Anthony's oratorio similarly plays with ironic contrasts between words and music, making use of silence as well as well-known musical quotations to weave a narrative about the First World War that captures many perspectives. Based on Alexander Aitken's book 'Gallipoli to the Somme', the oratorio includes a Maori war song, German Lieder, contemporary folk songs, a battle plan set to music, and the words attributed to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first President of the Republic of Turkey, inscribed on the Ari Burnu Memorial, Gallipoli. The composition process got Anthony thinking about the purpose of performing war history; the most effective ways to represent war in music and words; what it means to commemorate war and the dangers of distorting reality to make war more manageable for audiences; and how commemorations can critique as well as celebrate past conflicts. Among other questions, Alice asked:how differently is WW1 remembered in New Zealand compared with elsewhere?what forms of commemoration or storytelling dominate our habits of visualising WW1?what impact did centenary commemorations have on how we view this well-known conflict?what different musical responses to WW1 have there been over the last century?what challenges and opportunities do composers wrestle with when representing war in music?what musical styles did Anthony adopt in his oratorio, Gallipoli to the Somme, and why?how might this oratorio change or develop the ways in which we look back on WW1 today?We hope you enjoy the episode! You can listen to the whole of Anthony's oratorio 'Gallipoli to the Somme' here; it is one of the most moving and thought-provoking representations of the First World War in existence. Kate's latest book, 'Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney', is also a tour de force, and will make you want to dive deeper into Gurney's works; you can purchase it here. For a version of our podcast with close captions, please use this link. For more information about individuals and their projects, please have a look on the University of St Andrews Visualising War website.  Music composed by Jonathan YoungSound mixing by Zofia Guertin 

Catherine Pepinster, Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley and New Generation Thinker Dafydd Mills Daniel join Rana Mitter to look at the poet, theologian and now Saint John Henry. The programme explores Newman's conversion from the high church tradition of Anglicanism and the Oxford Movement to the Catholic faith looking at his thinking, his poetic writing and what his story tells us about Catholicism and the British establishment. Catherine Pepinster is former editor of the Tablet and the author of The Keys and the Kingdom: The British and the Papacy Dafydd Mills Daniel is McDonald Departmental Lecturer in Christian Ethics at the University of Oxford and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. His book is called Ethical Rationalism and Secularisation in the British Enlightenment Tim Stanley is a columnist and leader writer for the Daily Telegraph who studied history at Cambridge and who is a contributing editor for the Catholic Herald https://www.timothystanley.co.uk/index.html Dr Kate Kennedy is Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Associate Director and a music specialist who has written on Ivor Gurney, and co-edited The Silent Morning: Culture and Memory after the Armistice and The First World War: Literature, Music, Memory. You can find her presenting a Sunday Feature for Radio 3 about her research into Ivor Gurney. You can find a playlist Free Thinking explores religious belief https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03mwxlp including contributions from Ziauddin Sardar, Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, Rabbi Sacks, Marilynne Robinson and Simon Schama. Producer: Ruth Watts

The First World War poet and composer Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) spent the last fifteen years of his life confined in a Kent mental hospital before dying prematurely of tuberculosis. How good was Gurney's war poetry, and has his music stood the test of time? Why did try to re-write Shakespeare's plays? How far do recently uncovered archives transform our understandings both of Ivor Gurney's troubled life and his remarkable work?  Kate Kennedy of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing discusses her ground-breaking biography of Ivor Gurney Dweller in Shadows (Princeton 2021) with Duncan McCargo, in an unusual podcast that includes readings of his poetry, and two specially recorded examples of his music. The podcast opens and closes with Kate Kennedy (cello) and Simon Over (piano) performing Gurney's song Sleep. We also hear Simon accompany Dominic Bevan as he sings Severn Meadows, a rare example of Gurney setting his own words to music.  Rare treats lie in store for the listener.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The First World War poet and composer Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) spent the last fifteen years of his life confined in a Kent mental hospital before dying prematurely of tuberculosis. How good was Gurney's war poetry, and has his music stood the test of time? Why did try to re-write Shakespeare's plays? How far do recently uncovered archives transform our understandings both of Ivor Gurney's troubled life and his remarkable work?  Kate Kennedy of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing discusses her ground-breaking biography of Ivor Gurney Dweller in Shadows (Princeton 2021) with Duncan McCargo, in an unusual podcast that includes readings of his poetry, and two specially recorded examples of his music. The podcast opens and closes with Kate Kennedy (cello) and Simon Over (piano) performing Gurney's song Sleep. We also hear Simon accompany Dominic Bevan as he sings Severn Meadows, a rare example of Gurney setting his own words to music.  Rare treats lie in store for the listener. 

The First World War poet and composer Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) spent the last fifteen years of his life confined in a Kent mental hospital before dying prematurely of tuberculosis. How good was Gurney's war poetry, and has his music stood the test of time? Why did try to re-write Shakespeare's plays? How far do recently uncovered archives transform our understandings both of Ivor Gurney's troubled life and his remarkable work?  Kate Kennedy of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing discusses her ground-breaking biography of Ivor Gurney Dweller in Shadows (Princeton 2021) with Duncan McCargo, in an unusual podcast that includes readings of his poetry, and two specially recorded examples of his music. The podcast opens and closes with Kate Kennedy (cello) and Simon Over (piano) performing Gurney's song Sleep. We also hear Simon accompany Dominic Bevan as he sings Severn Meadows, a rare example of Gurney setting his own words to music.  Rare treats lie in store for the listener.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

The First World War poet and composer Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) spent the last fifteen years of his life confined in a Kent mental hospital before dying prematurely of tuberculosis. How good was Gurney's war poetry, and has his music stood the test of time? Why did try to re-write Shakespeare's plays? How far do recently uncovered archives transform our understandings both of Ivor Gurney's troubled life and his remarkable work?  Kate Kennedy of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing discusses her ground-breaking biography of Ivor Gurney Dweller in Shadows (Princeton 2021) with Duncan McCargo, in an unusual podcast that includes readings of his poetry, and two specially recorded examples of his music. The podcast opens and closes with Kate Kennedy (cello) and Simon Over (piano) performing Gurney's song Sleep. We also hear Simon accompany Dominic Bevan as he sings Severn Meadows, a rare example of Gurney setting his own words to music.  Rare treats lie in store for the listener.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/music

The First World War poet and composer Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) spent the last fifteen years of his life confined in a Kent mental hospital before dying prematurely of tuberculosis. How good was Gurney's war poetry, and has his music stood the test of time? Why did try to re-write Shakespeare's plays? How far do recently uncovered archives transform our understandings both of Ivor Gurney's troubled life and his remarkable work?  Kate Kennedy of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing discusses her ground-breaking biography of Ivor Gurney Dweller in Shadows (Princeton 2021) with Duncan McCargo, in an unusual podcast that includes readings of his poetry, and two specially recorded examples of his music. The podcast opens and closes with Kate Kennedy (cello) and Simon Over (piano) performing Gurney's song Sleep. We also hear Simon accompany Dominic Bevan as he sings Severn Meadows, a rare example of Gurney setting his own words to music.  Rare treats lie in store for the listener.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

The First World War poet and composer Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) spent the last fifteen years of his life confined in a Kent mental hospital before dying prematurely of tuberculosis. How good was Gurney's war poetry, and has his music stood the test of time? Why did try to re-write Shakespeare's plays? How far do recently uncovered archives transform our understandings both of Ivor Gurney's troubled life and his remarkable work?  Kate Kennedy of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing discusses her ground-breaking biography of Ivor Gurney Dweller in Shadows (Princeton 2021) with Duncan McCargo, in an unusual podcast that includes readings of his poetry, and two specially recorded examples of his music. The podcast opens and closes with Kate Kennedy (cello) and Simon Over (piano) performing Gurney's song Sleep. We also hear Simon accompany Dominic Bevan as he sings Severn Meadows, a rare example of Gurney setting his own words to music.  Rare treats lie in store for the listener.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

The First World War poet and composer Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) spent the last fifteen years of his life confined in a Kent mental hospital before dying prematurely of tuberculosis. How good was Gurney's war poetry, and has his music stood the test of time? Why did try to re-write Shakespeare's plays? How far do recently uncovered archives transform our understandings both of Ivor Gurney's troubled life and his remarkable work?  Kate Kennedy of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing discusses her ground-breaking biography of Ivor Gurney Dweller in Shadows (Princeton 2021) with Duncan McCargo, in an unusual podcast that includes readings of his poetry, and two specially recorded examples of his music. The podcast opens and closes with Kate Kennedy (cello) and Simon Over (piano) performing Gurney's song Sleep. We also hear Simon accompany Dominic Bevan as he sings Severn Meadows, a rare example of Gurney setting his own words to music.  Rare treats lie in store for the listener.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

EPISODE 3 Kate Kennedy has written a mesmerising and deeply moving book about the poet and composer Ivor Gurney, Dweller in Shadows. Gurney's life was beset by mental illness, disappointment and the trauma of war. He spent the last fifteen years of his life in an asylum, separated from the Gloucestershire countryside which shines from his work. In this episode Kate and Charlie explore the same fields that Gurney loved to walk, Kate talks about his life, and we hear some of the music Gurney was celebrated for.    Cello: Kate Kennedy Piano: Simon Over Tenor: Dominic Bevan Sound recordist for 'Severn Meadows': Theo Kennnedy   Produced, edited, written and presented by Charlie Lee-Potter  

What happens to a creative mind when it has everything taken away? Dr Kate Kennedy traces composer and poet Ivor Gurney's 15 years in an asylum, uncovering unseen poems and music

This week we spoke to Dr Kate Kennedy about her new book, Dweller in Shadows- A Life of Ivor Gurney. This is the first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylum. We also discussed life writing and the intersection between music and the written word.Each episode we speak to a different person from the creative arts to find out about their work and thoughts on our industry.Contact the pod: performativepod@gmail.comDr Kate Kennedy: https://drkatekennedy.com

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Rosinka Chaudhuri, the author of ‘The Literary Thing: History, poetry and the making of a modern cultural sphere', to discuss Rabindranath Tagore, who, in 1913, became the first non-white and non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature – since which he has been largely overlooked; Kate Kennedy, the author of ‘Dweller in the Shadows', a new Life of the war poet Ivor Gurney, considers the “peculiarly direct, urgent intensity” of the later work, composed while confined in an asylum; plus, let's hear it for independent bookshops'Rabindranath Tagore' by Bashabi Fraser 'The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore', edited by Sukanta ChaudhuriA special subscription offer for TLS podcast listeners: www.the-tls.co.uk/buy/podProducer: Ben Mitchell See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, we talk with Vince Sherry about two poems of WWI: Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier" and Ivor Gurney's "To His Love." The first poem, a stately beauty, imagines war almost peacefully; the second poem, scarred by combat, speaks back nervously and angrily. We talk through this remarkable set of poems and experiences and examine how a careful use of language conveys their effects. "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam; A body of England’s, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. To His Love by Ivor Gurney He's gone, and all our plans Are useless indeed. We'll walk no more on Cotswold Where the sheep feed Quietly and take no heed. His body that was so quick Is not as you Knew it, on Severn river Under the blue Driving our small boat through. You would not know him now ... But still he died Nobly, so cover him over With violets of pride Purple from Severn side. Cover him, cover him soon! And with thick-set Masses of memoried flowers— Hide that red wet Thing I must somehow forget. For more on Rupert Brooke, see The Poetry Foundation (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rupert-brooke). For more on Ivor Gurney, see The Poetry Foundation (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ivor-gurney). Gurney was also a prolific composer. For a sample of his music, see his Goucestershire Rhapsody. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqxo0rV2AFY)

Catherine Pepinster, Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley and New Generation Thinker Dafydd Mills Daniel join Rana Mitter to look at the poet, theologian and now Saint John Henry. The programme marks 175 years since Newman's conversion from the high church tradition of Anglicanism and the Oxford Movement to the Catholic faith on 23 Feb 1846, with a conversation exploring his thinking and poetic writing. Catherine Pepinster is former editor of the Tablet and the author of The Keys and the Kingdom: The British and the Papacy Dafydd Mills Daniel is McDonald Departmental Lecturer in Christian Ethics at the University of Oxford and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. His book is called Ethical Rationalism and Secularisation in the British Enlightenment Tim Stanley is a columnist and leader writer for the Daily Telegraph who studied history at Cambridge and who is a contributing editor for the Catholic Herald https://www.timothystanley.co.uk/index.html Dr Kate Kennedy is Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Associate Director and a music specialist who has written on Ivor Gurney, and co-edited The Silent Morning: Culture and Memory after the Armistice and The First World War: Literature, Music, Memory. You can find a playlist Free Thinking explores religious belief https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03mwxlp including contributions from Ziauddin Sardar, Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, Rabbi Sacks, Marilynne Robinson and Simon Schama. Producer: Ruth Watts

Catherine Pepinster, Kate Kennedy, Tim Stanley and New Generation Thinker Dafydd Mills Daniel join Rana Mitter to look at the poet, theologian and now Saint John Henry. The programme marks 175 years since Newman's conversion from the high church tradition of Anglicanism and the Oxford Movement to the Catholic faith on 23 Feb 1846, with a conversation exploring his thinking and poetic writing. Catherine Pepinster is former editor of the Tablet and the author of The Keys and the Kingdom: The British and the Papacy Dafydd Mills Daniel is McDonald Departmental Lecturer in Christian Ethics at the University of Oxford and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. His book is called Ethical Rationalism and Secularisation in the British Enlightenment Tim Stanley is a columnist and leader writer for the Daily Telegraph who studied history at Cambridge and who is a contributing editor for the Catholic Herald https://www.timothystanley.co.uk/index.html Dr Kate Kennedy is Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Associate Director and a music specialist who has written on Ivor Gurney, and co-edited The Silent Morning: Culture and Memory after the Armistice and The First World War: Literature, Music, Memory. You can find a playlist Free Thinking explores religious belief https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03mwxlp including contributions from Ziauddin Sardar, Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, Rabbi Sacks, Marilynne Robinson and Simon Schama. Producer: Ruth Watts

2 poems by the musician and poet Ivor Gurney.

Lots of great tunes here. Some talk mixed in too. Austin Crosby has a great full-length album that we must feature in full. The biography is short, and so is the particulars of the album notes for that matter. While the album notes were not provided to me, we hope that the album brings you joy. Besides that, we'll have some talk about something interesting on the covid-19 spectrum, music across the landscape, and more. Hope you enjoy the program today, and thanks so much for listening! Set 1: Greg Williams, Action Theme No.1 Ian Underwood, Walrus Love Ion, Flying Over Blue Waters Set 2: Our CD of the day. ------------- Hour Marker -------------, 0900 (9am 4/26/2020) Austin Crosby, Exhalation Austin Crosby, Inhalation Austin Crosby, Pursuit Austin Crosby, Breath Austin Crosby, Solace Austin Crosby, March Austin Crosby, Connotes Austin Crosby, Happy Isles Austin Crosby, Itdbnl Austin Crosby, Disarray Austin Crosby, A Rose and Its Thorn Austin Crosby, On All Set 3: Cleveland Wehle, Bird of Paradise Edward Martin and Thomas Walker, IV Canaries, Ou Gigue Du Roy from Pieces In A Minor (Pierre Dubut) Oberlin Consort of Viols, Set a 6 in C Major Opera Rock, Under Starry Skies Ozzie Cruse, Gleaning Various Sources Pavlova Wind Quintet, Prelude no. 4 (Ivor Gurney, arr. Christopher Britton) Chris Britton, Partita no. 2 in D minor BWV1004 - Sarabanda (JS Bach) Set 4: Cfcf, Half Dreaming Steve Roach, Quiet Friend Zero 7, Give It Away Brainvoyager, Nothing Will Last Forever Set 5: Laura Dreyer, Fim de Verao Lizzi, You Belong Lydia McCauley, Porcero Danza (Dance of the Pigs) Thanks so much for listening, see you next week for more great tunes!

This is a very short episode on the Glosters and their part at Fromelles. Short because? Well, unfortunately I can't find any written accounts of the battle by these boys. Famous war poet Ivor Gurney was in their sister battalion over to the right and one of his poems sounds just like Fromelles.

Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) There's a fascinating study waiting to be done comparing David Jones with Ivor Gurney. Like David Jones, Gurney served as a private in the First World War. Like Jones, he has an established reputation in another field of the arts: in Gurney's case, music. He was a composer of ‘art songs' and considered, by those who know, to have been a good one. Like Jones, Gurney was traumatised by his experiences, though in his case he spent from 1922 to his death in institutions. Like Jones, as a poet, Gurney is perhaps not so well known. Neither of them is easily conscripted into the prevailing, ‘if it's good it's anti war' mentality. His poems, while recording the horrors, also evoke the shared experience and community. Here, in ‘First Time In', he records a memory of meeting Welsh soldiers, and his delight in their singing. This poem is taken from ‘Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney' (p 69). edited by P.J.Kavanagh. There is another, longer version of this poem, or another attempt to describe the same incident, on page 85.

Ahead of the London premiere of Robert Singer's new work, _Watercraft_, Dr Kate Kennedy interviews the composer at Wigmore Hall. **Robert Singer** grew up in the English Lake District where music became an integral part of his life  from the start. When he was five, an inherited piano became his creative instrument. He attended Westmorland Youth Orchestra as percussionist, and played in the National Theatre in London as part of a school show.  He studied music at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, where he wrote for dance and theatre,  working alongside professionals Steve Nestar and award-winning theatre director, Mark Babych.  He was asked to write the music for his graduation ceremony, hosted by Paul McCartney.  During his Masters in Music Composition at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Robert  further studied classical and electroacoustic music. He led an independent project with external  choreographers to create and perform an original full-scale ballet with orchestra (the first to be  performed at the college).  Since graduating Robert has worked with soprano Chanae Curtis (praised for her attractive  singing by the New York Times) and Jakob Grubbström (conductor of the Cantores Amicitiae  choir). Robert’s musical creativity continues to grow with a strongly elemental voice emerging. **Dr Kate Kennedy** is the Weinrebe Research Fellow in Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford. She is the Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, and she teaches in both the English and Music Faculties. She completed a PhD in 2009 at the University of Cambridge on the work of Ivor Gurney, and her biography Ivor Gurney – Dweller in Shadows will be published by Princeton University Press in 2018. She writes for BBC Music Magazine, and gives talks at literary and music festivals around the country, and at venues such as the Wigmore Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and the Southbank Centre, and is a regular guest on BBC Radio 3, on programmes such as Essential Classics, Composer of the Week, Music Matters, and the Proms Plus series. She is the consultant to Radio 3 for their First World War programming, and has appeared on BBC 2 and 4 television.

Ahead of the London premiere of Edmund Finnis' new work, Five Trios, Dr Kate Kennedy interviews the composer at Wigmore Hall. **Edmund Finnis** is a “hugely gifted composer” (Sunday Telegraph) whose music has been hailed as “magical” (The Times), “iridescent, compelling” (The Guardian), “exquisite” (Sara Mohr-Pietsch, BBC Radio 3) and “ethereally beautiful” (Herald Scotland). His works are regularly performed and broadcast, both at home in the UK and internationally. Finnis’ multifaceted output ranges from intimate music for soloists and duets to immersive electronic pieces, music for film, ensemble music, and works for large orchestra. **Dr Kate Kennedy** is the Weinrebe Research Fellow in Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford. She is the Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, and she teaches in both the English and Music Faculties. She completed a PhD in 2009 at the University of Cambridge on the work of Ivor Gurney, and her biography Ivor Gurney – Dweller in Shadows will be published by Princeton University Press in 2018. She writes for BBC Music Magazine, and gives talks at literary and music festivals around the country, and at venues such as the Wigmore Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and the Southbank Centre, and is a regular guest on BBC Radio 3, on programmes such as Essential Classics, Composer of the Week, Music Matters, and the Proms Plus series. She is the consultant to Radio 3 for their First World War programming, and has appeared on BBC 2 and 4 television.

Today on Highway 89, we're very pleased to welcome pianist Scott Holden and baritone Robert Brandt into the studio. They bring with them a handful of pieces by World-War-I-era composers; George Butterworth, Ivor Gurney, and Frederick Keel among them.

Sarah Lucas burst onto the art scene in the early 1990s, one of the wildest and most provocative of the Young British Artists. Her work was challenging, bawdy, revolutionary: her first solo show in 1992 was called "Penis Nailed to a Board". She challenged macho culture with sculptures such as "Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab" in which she constructed a naked female body - from a table, two eggs, and a kebab. Lucas makes sculptures from worn-out furniture, stuffed tights, fruit (particularly bananas), and cigarettes - she's a passionate smoker. In 2015 she represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, and the centrepiece with a massive yellow sculpture named after the footballer Maradona - part man, part maypole, with dangling breasts and a nine-foot phallus. In Private Passions, Sarah Lucas looks back on the wild days of the 90s, and her upbringing in North London "a childhood completely without ambition". She talks about leaving school at 16, becoming pregnant, but then deciding not to keep the baby; and how that decision enabled her to know clearly what she wanted to do with her life. She reflects on how the central relationships in her life lead to artistic collaboration - with her partner, the composer Julian Simmons, and with her girlfriends, whose lower bodies she cast in plaster. And Sarah Lucas reveals that the wild London party girl is now happiest in Suffolk, living at the end of a country lane, and listening to Benjamin Britten. How seriously are we supposed to take her work? "Just because you're funny doesn't mean you can't be serious too." Sarah Lucas's music choices include Purcell's King Arthur; songs by Benjamin Britten and Ivor Gurney; and music by her partner Julian Simmons. Produced by Elizabeth Burke A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.

TLS Voices Michael Caines considers the work of the war poet Ivor Gurney, and reads a selection from his work, including the previously unpublished poems "The Women at Work" and "The Vow of Life". Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr Philip Lancaster presents the life of literary musician Ivor Guney, and introduces some the key themes in his poetry. Philip Lancaster is a writer and composer, a leading textual and critical scholar specialising in early twentieth century music and poetry, and a solo baritone and consort singer. He is a current Finzi Scholar, and a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.

Donald Macleod is joined by Dr Kate Kennedy to explore the life and work of Ivor Gurney. Including works specially recorded for the series.

Iain Burnside introduces his new play A Soldier and a Maker, which is based on the songs, poems and letters of Ivor Gurney and opens in the Barbican Pit Theatre on 20 April. He discusses why Gurney is relatively unknown, the collaborative nature of rehearsals for the show, and what Guildhall singers and pianists will gain from the project. First published 13 April 2012.

Episode 77: Writing Women Back Into Music History!   Upcoming Events: June 20 – performance with pianist Matthew Hagle for WFMT’s Impromptu; June 22 – with Earthen Grave for Days of the Doomed near Milwaukee, Wisconsin; June 28 – master class for the Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Door County, Wisconsin; June 30 – free children’s program at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago   Inquiries from my Inbox:  Vanlal asks: “How do you play period works a half step low?” Brian asks: “Have you ever played ‘Ashoken Farewell?’”   Random Musical Thought: Are your instruments your friends, your family, your harem, your menagerie, or what?   Main Topic: A conversation with Karen Shaffer, author of “Maud Powell: Pioneer American Violinist” and Pamela Blevins, author of “Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott: Song of Pain and Beauty.” For more information about the Maud Powell Society for Music and Education and the magazine “Signature, Women in Music,” please visit www.maudpowell.org.   Total playing time: 00:45:28   SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PODCAST ON I-TUNES!   Would you like to be featured on Violin Adventures? Just send your question via text or as an MP3 attachment to rachelbartonpine@aol.com and listen for your answer on Inquiries From My Inbox!   Thanks for listening!   www.rachelbartonpine.com   www.twitter.com/rbpviolinist www.facebook.com/rachelbartonpineviolinist www.youtube.com/RachelBartonPine Violin Adventures with Rachel Barton Pine is produced by Windy Apple Studios www.windyapple.com

Professor Tim Kendall considers what composer and poet Ivor Gurney understood by the phrase 'war poet' and how he saw his own work as belonging to (and eminent amidst) a tradition of writing about war. Tim Kendall examines the ways in which Gurney represents poetry, and the figure of the poet, in his own work; and assesses Gurney's hopes for the efficacy of such poetry - whether as acts of witness, of escapism, or of political intervention. Tim Kendall is Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter and editor of The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry (Oxford Handbooks of Literature) and author of Modern English War Poetry. The paper was presented at the First World War Literature, Music and Memory Conference held at King's College, Cambridge on the 11th and 12th July, 2009. Recording courtesy of Silvia Perucchetti.

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