Sunday, April 24, 2016

two sonnets by wendy cope for shakespeare's birthday, copied from yesterday's guardian

Saturday 23 April 2016 08.00 BST

My Father’s Shakespeare
My father must have bought it second-hand,
Inscribed “To RS Elwyn” – who was he?
Published 1890, leather-bound,
In 1961 passed on to me.
November 6th.  How old was I?  Sixteen.
Doing A level in English Lit.,
In love with Keats and getting very keen
On William Shakespeare.  I was thrilled with it,
This gift, glad then, as now, to think
I had been chosen as the keeper of
My father’s Shakespeare, where, in dark blue ink,
He wrote, “To Wendy Mary Cope. With love.”
Love on a page, surviving death and time.
He didn’t even have to make it rhyme.

On Sonnet 18
 “So long as men can breathe and eyes can see” –
You don’t assume we’ll be around for ever.
You couldn’t know that “this gives life to thee”
Only until the sun goes supernova.
That knowledge doesn’t prove your words untrue.
Neither time nor the advance of science
Has taken anything away from you,
Or faced down your magnificent defiance.
That couplet.  Were you smiling as you wrote it?
Did you utter a triumphant “Yes”?
Walking round the garden, did you quote it,
Sotto voce, savouring your success?
And did you always know, or sometimes doubt
That passing centuries would bear you out?


• Specially commissioned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

like ... david harvey ... usually knows what's happening elsewhere













http://davidharvey.org/2016/03/video-senior-loeb-scholar-lecture-david-harvey-harvard-graduate-school-design-march-28-2016/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harvey

Saturday, April 9, 2016

i have been trying to find ten interesting versions of "my favourite things", starting with the obvious ... did i say ten ?
















https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33o32C0ogVM

















pomplamoose ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvYZMqQffQE

























john coltrane ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNmpIA_bLcE















joey alexander ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pzIlq7jZzw

























sarah vaughan ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dusavln6Cjw















j rabbit ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BqRoCwkH0M






















dave brubeck ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43T0HdVNOD8

























mary j blige ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VCMl-620to



















stephen hough !!! ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pih_W62LOVc

























bjork ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F9jjjKShQ4

















kagyuma ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7j9eiXkY2I















youn sun nah ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3q6L8ONqCI















danilla ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiQqaPzri0c

















jade williams ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0_-lAuTZao

























akihiro tanaka ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFPBT7iV6rQ

























al jarreau and kathleen battle ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQwzaNOyXQE























the lennon sisters ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-reAa2ushQ
















bill evans ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_PUZkJ79BE






















motis chamorro big band ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt9QGvQqMnU













avila ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDtMj6aQZ7g















anna mansonn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ItBdW_Tt5Q















youn sun nah creaky jackals remix ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ItBdW_Tt5Q


















betty carter ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDtE1PhaC34

















brad mehldau ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiXs0nJZNYg

























grant green ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eShJiIRxm0

























levi barcourt ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJZar4PyFYg



















supremes - dj iLLume re-mix ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HloqNRffEiY





unknown ... maybe dan hardin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d372MMi0Dg

























lloyd conley ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJPst3ZvCIE




















christine moore and bev lewis ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFuI7KtjECU







unknown ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7mx9K3g7Tk















two violins and lebedeva's jazz trio ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7mx9K3g7Tk















strictly ... sophie ellis bexter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_UM6zGOcNs















yum-kyoung ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MI2gWTVLGQ
















john stoddart ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_UesC0q-0o














bobby macferrin ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Th4KleuBo















peter sprague ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0pyxsMAROY