WALTZ NUMBER 1 Grande valse brillante by CHOPIN. Poem by D.R. James.
The lilac beaches, the rough promenade,/have frozen over in the night.
Cello. A love story by Bill Arnott.
Four strings and one player. Making things better. Alchemy. Magic, and timeless. The wonder of cello.
Hungarian Dance No 5 by Brahms. Poem by Vin M
Hope plays with with The Stiletto Sisters, The Persephone Project, My Friend The Chocolate Cake and many others.
DOG DAY AFTERNOON. Music and story by Luke R Davies.
So with the help of the University of YouTube my new music adventure began.
The Classical music collection
Our classical music collection is in a small, curious corner of the Stereo Stories library.
O LOVELY PEACE by GEORGE FRIEDRICH HANDEL. Story by Felicity Sandral
As a teenager, I harboured completely delusional fantasies about becoming a classical musician. I mean. Completely. Delusional
KEYBOARD SONATAS by DOMENICO SCARLATTI. Text and poem by Kevin Densley
The keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757), and a poem I wrote about them, have a close connection to my favourite rental place, an historic mansion in Newtown, Geelong.
The Sun God rises, three years on
Three years ago, John Malins flipped the Stereo Stories concept a little by writing about a song he had never heard: The Sun God, written by William G James and Aubrey De Vere.
OH! YE DEAD by KEVIN McDERMOTT and RALPH RICHEY. Story by Annette Signorini
The great writer would have been impressed. He was the subject of all discussion, around which everything circled.
LACRIMOSA from the REQUIEM MASS in D MINOR (K. 626) by WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART. Text by Kevin Densley
I have a vivid memory from that time of watching this wonderful film near the end of its run in Mid-City’s main cinema, which seated close to a thousand people, with only a couple of others in attendance.