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A journey of discovery, weaving music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

A weekly journey of discovery, weaving together a range of music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

Words and Music: Clouds

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Texts and music on the theme of clouds. With readers Simon Russell Beale and Adjoa Andoh.

Texts and music on the theme of clouds, with readings by Simon Russell Beale and Adjoa Andoh. With Yang Chi, Shakespeare, Rilke and Thoreau, plus Westhoff, Ligeti and Debussy.

Simon Russell Beale and Adjoa Andoh track clouds scudding across the sky, in poems from Yang Chi to Shakespeare and Rilke to Thoreau. With music by Westhoff, Ligeti and Debussy.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: The Cloud
EDWARD THOMAS: The clouds that are so light
EMILY DICKINSON: A Curious Cloud surprised the Sky
JONATHAN SWIFT: Gulliver’s Travels
WILLIAM SHARP: Clouds
YANG CHI, translated by JONATHAN CHAVES: Nesting among Clouds
WORDSWORTH: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
SHAKESPEARE: Sonnet 33
CLOUD APPRECIATION SOCIETY: The Manifesto of the Cloud Appreciation Society
FROST: Lost in Heaven
RILKE, translated A. POULIN, JR.: These laborers of rain
ROBERT HERRICK: Her Bed
DEREK WALCOTT: A Long, white
SANDBURG: Fog
SHAKESPEARE: Sonnet 34
ALEXANDER POSEY: Two Clouds
YEATS: These are the Clouds
ARISTOPHANES, translated by PETER MEINECK: Chorus of the Clouds, from The Clouds
RUPERT BROOKE: Clouds
ELLEN PALMER ALLERTON: Trailing Clouds
HENRY THOREAU: Journal, 25th December 1851
RILKE, translated by A. POULIN, JR.: Evening Clouds
BRECHT, translated by DEREK MAHON: A Cloud

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