etc ... broadcast for 2-09-2003 featuring King Solomon's Mines and Bach's Brandenberg Concertos. All new, never before broadcast.
Feb 8th, 01:13 UTC
romance, adventure and mystery to the Brandenberg Concertos and Chopin's Nocturnes. First of two in the "Valentine's Series".
02-09-2003 etc... broadcast
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Complete readings of Gutenberg texts.
Channel 1:
King Solomon's Mines.
Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra.
elephant hunters are a rough set of men, who do not trouble themselves with
much beyond the facts of life and the ways of Kafirs. But here and
there you meet a man who takes the trouble to collect traditions from
the natives, and tries to make out a little piece of the history of
this dark land. It was such a man as this who first told me the legend
of Solomon's Mines, now a matter of nearly thirty years ago. That was
when I was on my first elephant hunt in the Matalebe country. His name
was Evans, and he was killed the following year, poor fellow, by a
wounded buffalo, and lies buried near the Zambesi Falls.
Channel 2 :
J. S. Bach Suites for Cello.
Brahms Cello Sonatas.
Wuthering Heights.
This was Heathcliff's first introduction to the family. On coming
back a few days afterwards (for I did not consider my banishment
perpetual), I found they had christened him Heathcliff, it was
the name of a son who died in childhood, and it has served him ever
since, both for Christian and surname. Miss Cathy and he were now
very thick; but Hindley hated him, and to say the truth I did the
same; and we plagued and went on with him shamefully, for I wasn't
reasonable enough to feel my injustice, and the mistress never put
in a word on his behalf when she saw him wronged.
. . . . .
So, from the beginning, he bred bad feeling in the house; and
at Mrs. Earnshaw's death, which happened in less than two years
after, the young master had learned to regard his father as an
oppressor rather than a friend, and Heathcliff as a usurper of his
parent's affections and his privileges; and he grew bitter with
brooding over these injuries.
. . . . .
he minded little what tale was told since he had what he
wanted. He complained so seldom, indeed, of such stirs as these,
that I really thought him not vindictive, I was deceived
completely, as you will hear.
Channel 3:
What is a Nocturne?
A nocturne is a piece for piano that is typically short, lyrical and slow.
J. S. Bach, The Brandenberg Concertos.
Chopin Nocturnes.
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
We shall not try to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedral
nose, that horseshoe mouth; that little left eye obstructed
with a red, bushy, bristling eyebrow, while the right eye disappeared
entirely beneath an enormous wart; of those teeth
in disarray, broken here and there, like the embattled parapet
of a fortress; of that callous lip, upon which one of these
teeth encroached, like the tusk of an elephant; of that forked
chin; and above all, of the expression spread over the whole;
of that mixture of malice, amazement, and sadness. Let the
reader dream of this whole, if he can.
. . . . .
his whole person was a grimace. A huge head,
bristling with red hair; between his shoulders an enormous
hump, a counterpart perceptible inn front; a system of thighs
and legs so strangely astray that they could touch each other
only at the knees, and, viewed from the front, resembled the
crescents of two scythes joined by the handles; large feet, monstrous
hands; and, with all this deformity, an indescribable
and redoubtable air of vigor, agility, and courage, strange
exception to the eternal rule which wills that force as well as
beauty shall be the result of harmony. Such was the pope
whom the fools had just chosen for themselves.
One would have pronounced him a giant who had been
broken and badly put together again.
Enjoy!
Mike Eschman, etc ...
http://www.etc-edu.com
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