Hotels, Hostelries and Town Halls
Readings and music take us from Switzerland to India, New York to a Midlands country manor hotel, from bars to ballrooms, spooky corridors to smiling lift attendants.
From the Mermaid tavern favoured by Elizabethan writers to the patterned carpets of the hotel in Colorado's Rocky Mountains which features in Kubrick's film The Shining, from ballrooms and bars to the civic spaces which hold dances and musical premieres - today's Words and Music is inspired by hotels, hostelries and town halls. The readers are Joanna David and Daniel Millar.
Producer in Salford: Jessica Treen
Readings:
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales (General Prologue)
Deborah Moggach - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Constantijn Huygens - Dedication to the New Amsterdam Town Hall
Anita Brookner - Hotel du Lac
Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust
Zaffar Kunial - Ings
George Orwell - The Moon Under Water
Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend
Kay Thompson - Eloise At The Plaza
Sherill Tippins - Inside the Dream Palace
Ian McMillan - Let's Hear it for Skipton Town hall
Edna O'Brien - The Country Girls
Brendan Behan - Thanks To james Joyce
Anon - Dursley Inn
Daisy Johnson - Hotel
Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight
Vicki Baum - Grand Hotel
John Keats - Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
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Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:01
Sir George Dyson
The Canterbury Pilgrims
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- The Canterbury Pilgrims.
- Chandos.
- 1.
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Geoffrey Chaucer (Trans Nevill Coghill)
The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue
00:01Henry Purcell
Come, let us drink, Z 245
Performer: The Merry Companions.- Sono Luminus.
- Tr 33.
00:03Robert Schumann
Traumerei
Performer: Jean Pougnet. Orchestra: Palm Court Orchestra.- Grand Hotel 成人快手 Archive Recording from 1955.
- 成人快手 Archive.
- 1.
Deborah Moggach
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
00:02Adalgiso Ferraris
Two Guitars
Orchestra: The Palm Court Orchestra. Conductor: Jean Pougnet.- 成人快手 Archive.
- Tr 1.
Constantijn Huygens
Dedication to the New Amsterdam Town Hall
00:12Alexandre Desplat
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France.- Airlines.
- Warner Classics.
- 11.
00:14Felix Mendelssohn
Quartet no. 6 in F minor Op.80 for strings
Performer: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.- Resonus Classics.
- Tr 3.
Anita Brookner
Hotel du Lac
00:23Harry Brooks
Aint Misbehavin
Composer: Andy Razaf. Composer: Fats Waller. Ensemble: The Bernard Peiffer Trio.- Piano Et Rythmes.
- Universal Music Division.
- 1.
Evelyn Waugh
A Handful of Dust
00:26Lorenz Hart
There's a Small Hotel
Composer: Richard Rodgers. Ensemble: The Supremes.- The Supremes Sing Rodgers and Hart.
- Motown.
- 19.
Zaffar Kunial
Ings
George Orwell
The Moon Under Water
00:31Ralph Vaughan Williams
A London symphony (Symphony no.2): 3rd mvt; Scherzo - nocturne
Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.- ONYX.
- Tr 3.
Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend
00:34Arthur Sullivan
Eat, drink and be gay
Composer: William Gilbert. Ensemble: The D鈥橭yly Carte Opera Company. Conductor: Isidore Godfrey.- Eat, drink and be Gay.
- Avid Entertainment.
- 24.
00:36Thomas Ad猫s
Hotel Suite from Powder her Face
Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.- Ades Orchestral Works.
- Ondine.
- 5.
Kay Thompson
Eloise At The Plaza
00:38Sonny Rollins
Oleo
Ensemble: Miles Davis Sextet.- Jazz at the Plaza.
- Columbia/Legacy.
- 6.
Sherill Tippins
Inside the Dream Palace
00:43Kurt Weill
Alabama Song
Performer: Tim Pierce. Singer: David Johansen. Singer: Ellen Shipley. Singer: Bob Dorough. Performer: Ralph Schuckett.- September Song.
- Sony Classical.
- 3.
Ian McMillan
Let鈥檚 Hear it for Skipton Town Hall
00:48Karlheinz Stockhausen
Tierkreis: Leo
Composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Music Arranger: Caroline Shaw. Ensemble: The Knights. Conductor: Eric Jacobsen.- Tierkreis.
- Warner Classics.
- 7.
00:51Ina Boyle
I. Boyle: Phantasy for Violin and Chamber Orchestra
Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Geiss.- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- Tr 5.
Edna O鈥橞rien
The Country Girls
Brendan Behan
Thanks To James Joyce
00:54Denny Laine
Caf茅 on the Left Bank
Composer: Paul McCartney. Ensemble: Wings.- London Town.
- Parlaphone.
- 1.
00:56Turlough O'Carolan
Carolan's Cup
Composer: Bjarte Eike. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.- The Alehouse Sessions.
- Rubicon.
- 11.
00:59Wendy Carlos
The Shining
Composer: Rachel Elkind. Performer: Wendy Carlos. Performer: Rachel Elkind.- The Shining聽.
- WaterTower Music.
- 1.
01:02Irving Berlin
Puttin on the Ritz
Performer: Judy Garland.- Puttin' on the Ritz (Live), Vol. 2.
- Top Tracks.
- 5.
01:06Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Heroic'
Performer: Martha Argerich.- Martha Argerich - The Legendary 1965 Recording.
- Warner Classics.
- 10.
Broadcast
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