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| Aaron Copland (1900-1990) | ...12 Poems of EMILY DICKINSON (selection)... |
| Another Country | ...ENGLISH poet Lavinia Greenlaw travels to Amherst in Massachusetts, the lifelong home of 19th-century American poet EMILY DICKINSON.... |
| Bbc Proms 2006 | ...Inspired by the poetry of EMILY DICKINSON, Julian Anderson's new Proms commission is a non-religious work with purely orchestral movements framing a setting of sections from the Latin Mass, together with other texts in Latin and English. The mezzo part was especially written for tonight's soloist, whose versatility and depth of the sound the composer has always admired.... |
| Eclipse 1999 | ...Astronomer Heather Couper introduces five readings of poetry, prose and diary extracts to mark the end of the millennium. Words are provided by sun worshippers such as Queen Victoria, EMILY DICKINSON, Malcolm Muggeridge and Oscar Wilde. Readers Denys Hawthorne, Mona Hammond, Lisa Eichorn, Derek Griffiths and Amanda Root. Part 1. / With Sheila McClennon and guests. Reading: `Eclipse 1999' (1/5).... |
| Performance On 3 | ...John Adams, the BBCSO's Artist in Association, conducts his modern classic Harmonium, a setting of words by John Donne and EMILY DICKINSON for large chorus and orchestra. And the young Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto plays the earlier and less well-known of Bartok's two violin concertos. Presented by Paul Guinery.... |
| Poetry Please | ...Roger McGough introduces requests for favourite poems by, among others, EMILY DICKINSON, Walt Whitman and John Betjeman. The readers are Peter Marinker and Alice Arnold.... |
| Something Understood | ...She talks to violinist Ruth Waterman about the famous bridge of Mostar in Bosnia, and draws upon the poetry of EMILY DICKINSON and music by Bobbie Gentry and Mozart.... |
| Sunday Feature | ...Another Country A series of four personal journeys 3. The Red in My Mind The English poet Lavinia Greenlaw travels to Amherst in Massachusetts, the lifelong home of the great 19th century American poet EMILY DICKINSON. She famously published only a handful of poems in her life and lived an increasingly reclusive existence in her bedroom in the family home. Was she mad or did she know what she was up to? Lavinia Greenlaw, who spent some time teaching writing in Amherst, revisits the town and tests her own feelings for the place, its hostilities and hemmed in quality, with those of EMILY DICKINSON. With contributions from poet James Lasdun, critic Helen Vendler and museum curator Betty Falsey.... |
| Under The Influence | ...Anne-Marie Fyfe grew up in the 1960s in a small coastal town in North Antrim and writes poems about this lifestyle as well as the cosmopolitan life of London. However, the writer who has influenced her most is EMILY DICKINSON.... |
| Women On Love | ...`The Love a Life Can Show Below'. By Hattie Naylor, inspired by EMILY DICKINSON. Annabel is a romantic novelist, passionate about food. But when passion turns to obsession, it has horrifying results. With Raquel Cassidy, Ben Onwukwe and Giles Fagan.... |
| Words And Music | ...Featured writers include EMILY DICKINSON, John Clare, Robert Herrick, Thomas Mann and George Herbert. Sylvia Plath reads her poem Ariel and Brian Patten's A Blade of Grass, a poem about the loss of innocence.... |