Poetry Cafe 179: Love, Marriage, Weddings

Love, Marriage, Weddings

Playlist (texts read & music played)
1. Mendelssohn: Wedding March from ‘Ein Sommernachtstraum’
2. Viviani: Sonata for Trumpet  and Organ in C Major, Andante
3. Goethe: ‘This is the true season of love…’
4. Mark Twain: ‘A marriage makes….’
5. Adrian Lomax: ‘Wedding Day’
6. Anon.: ‘Love is giving, …’
7. Viviani: Sonata for Trumpet and Organ in C Major, Allegro
8. Corinthians 13: ‘Love is patient and kind….’
9. Dante: from ‘The Divine Comedy’
10. Michelangelo, Sonnet 32
11. Britten: Michelangelo’s Sonnet 32
12. Elizabeth Jennings: ‘Relationships’ & ‘Friendship’
13. Shakespeare: from ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Act 2, Scenes 2 & 6
14. Shakespeare: from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (very start and end)
15. Shakespeare: Sonnet  116 ‘Let me not…’
16. Shakespeare: Sonnet  18 ‘Shall I compare thee….’
17. Una Marson: ‘To wed, or not to wed’
18. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: ‘How do I love thee?’
19. Mark Twain: ‘These I Can Promise’
20. Lynn Anderson: ‘I never promised you a rose-garden’
21. D.H. Lawrence: ‘Fidelity’
22. Charlotte Brontë: letter of Nov 20, 1840
23. Charlotte Brontë: from ‘Jane Eyre’, Ch. 26
24. Thomas Hardy: from ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’, Ch. 16
25. Charles Dickens: from ‘Great Expectations’, Chs. 8 & 11
26. Charles Dickens: from ‘Bleak House’, Chs. 36 & 64
27. Wagner: ‘Lohengrin’ – ‘Treulich geführt’
28. Edwin Muir: ‘The Confirmation’
29. Diana Gabaldon: from ‘Outlander’, Ch. 14 – ‘A Marriage Takes Place’
30. ‘Sing me a song of a lass that is gone’ (Theme music from ‘Outlander’)
31. ‘Mairi’s Wedding’ (Scottish folk song)
32. Liz Lochhead: ‘The Bride’
33. Ogden Nash: ‘A Word to Husbands’
34. George Orwell: from ‘Keep the Aspidistra Flying’
35. J. Austin: ‘How to Do Things with Words’
36. From ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’
37. ‘Daisy, Daisy, Give me your Answer, do’ (sung here by Nat King Cole)
38. ‘I’m Getting Married in the Morning’, from ‘My Fair Lady’, sung by Stanley Holloway
39. Letter to ‘The Independent’, Sept 9, 2023, by Sarah Gall
40. Editorial in  ‘The Times’,  Sept 11, 2023
41. Wendy Cope: ‘Valentine’
42. Mary-Ann Tracey: ‘Changes’
43. Voltaire: ‘Sensual pleasure….’
44. Rainer Maria Rilke: ‘Love Song’
45. Widor: Symphony no. 5, Toccata