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Modernism in the 1920s

Lisa Dwan and Anthony Howell with readings from the age of Joyce, Eliot and jazz, featuring music from Stravinsky and Schoenberg to Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton.

Lisa Dwan and Anthony Howell with readings from the age of Joyce, Eliot and jazz, featuring music from Stravinsky and Schoenberg to Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton. Including Ezra Pound decrying the state of modern critics, Franz Kafka worrying about those daring airmen, and Joyce's Molly Bloom revelling in the fact she said yes. With a focus of the Proms season being on music from 1922, this Words and Music marks some of the key books published that year and music evoked by them.

Readings:
William Carlos Williams, Kora In Hell, read by Anthony Howell
Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, read by Lisa Dwan
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, ready by T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot, Preludes, read by Anthony Howell
‘Aramis’, Review of Ulysses by James Joyce, The Sporting Times, 1st April 1922, read by Anthony Howell
Virginia Woolf, Reflections on Ulysses by James Joyce, private latter, read by Lisa Dwan
James Joyce, Ulysses, Speech of John F. Taylor, read by James Joyce
James Joyce, Ulysses, read by Lisa Dwan
Tommaso Marinetti, The Futurist Manifesto, read by Anthony Howell
Franz Kafka, Airplanes at Bresica, read by Anthony Howell
Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, read by Lisa Dwan
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Jazz Age, read by Lisa Dwan
Ezra Pound, Canto III, read by Ezra Pound
Adolf Loos, Ornament & Crime, read by Anthony Howell
Amy Lowell, The Artist, read by Lisa Dwan
Ezra Pound, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, read by Anthony Howell
H.D, Sheltered Garden, read by Lisa Dwan
Claude McKay, On Broadway, read by Lisa Dwan
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, read by Anthony Howell

Producer: Luke Mulhall

1 hour, 14 minutes

Last on

Sun 17 Jul 2022 17:30

Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • Â鶹ԼÅÄ Archive

    Lord Gainford addressing ?listeners-in? from the new Savoy Hill studios

  • 00:02

    Fats Waller

    Birmingham Blues

    Performer: Fats Waller.
    • Complete Jazz Series 1922 ? 1926 884385893170.
    • TR2.
  • 00:02

    Fats Waller

    Birmingham Blues

  • William Carlos Williams

    Kora In Hell, read by Anthony Howell

  • 00:06

    Sergey Prokofiev

    Piano Concerto No.3 in C major, op.26, ii. Tema con variazioni

    Performer: Yevgeny Kissin, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon 439 898-2.
    • TR5.
  • 00:06

    Sergey Prokofiev

    Piano Concerto no.3 (2nd mvt: Theme and Variations)

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
  • Virginia Woolf

    Jacob?s Room, read by Lisa Dwan

  • 00:12

    Arnold Schoenberg

    Serenade, Op. 24, Song Without Words

    Performer: Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Robert Craft.
    • Naxos 85572522.
    • TR6.
  • 00:12

    Arnold Schoenberg

    Serenade, Op.24 (6th mvt: Song without Words)

    Conductor: Robert Craft.
  • T.S. Eliot

    The Waste Land, ready by T.S. Eliot

  • 00:16

    Arthur Honegger

    Antigone

    Performer: Heinz Holliger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Phillips 431052.
    • TR10.
  • 00:16

    Arthur Honegger

    Antigone

    Performer: Heinz Holliger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
  • T.S. Eliot

    Preludes, read by Anthony Howell

  • 00:19

    Alban Berg

    String Quartet, Op.3 i. Langsam

    Performer: Alban Berg Quartett.
  • 00:20

    Alban Berg

    String Quartet, Op.3 (1st mvt: Langsam)

    Ensemble: Alban Berg Quartett.
  • Aramis

    Review of Ulysses by James Joyce, The Sporting Times, 1st April 1922, read by Anthony Howell

  • Virginia Woolf

    Reflections on Ulysses by James Joyce, private latter, read by Lisa Dwan

  • James Joyce

    Ulysses, Speech of John F. Taylor, read by James Joyce

  • 00:25

    Kevin McDermott

    Those Seaside Girls

  • 00:25

    Harry B. Norris

    Those Seaside Girls

    Performer: Kevin McDermott & Ralph Richey.
    • Sunphone Records 61604.
    • TR9.
  • James Joyce

    Ulysses, read by Lisa Dwan

  • 00:32

    Carlos Chávez

    Energia for Nine Instruments

    Ensemble: La Camerata. Ensemble: Tambuco Percussion Ensemble. Conductor: Eduardo Mata.
    • Dorian DOR90215.
    • TR9.
  • 00:32

    Carlos Chávez

    Energia

    Ensemble: La Camerata. Ensemble: Tambuco. Conductor: Eduardo Mata.
  • Tommaso Marinetti

    The Futurist Manifesto, read by Anthony Howell

  • 00:37

    George Antheil

    Ballet Mechanique, for pianos, percussion, electric buzzers and airplane propellers

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Spalding.
    • Naxos 8.559060.
    • TR5.
  • 00:37

    George Antheil

    Ballet Mechanique

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Spalding.
  • Franz Kafka

    Airplanes at Bresica, read by Anthony Howell

  • Anita Loos

    Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, read by Lisa Dwan

  • 00:42

    Jelly Roll Morton

    King Porter Stomp

    Performer: Jelly Roll Morton.
    • Edel Records 0193602ERE.
    • TR3.
  • 00:43

    Jelly Roll Morton

    King Porter Stomp

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The Jazz Age, read by Lisa Dwan

  • 00:46

    Louis Armstrong

    Coal Cart Blues

    Performer: Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra.
  • 00:46

    Louis Armstrong

    Coal Cart Blues

  • Ezra Pound

    Canto III, read by Ezra Pound

  • 00:50

    Igor Stravinsky

    Pulccinella, Serenata, Larghetto: Mentre L'erbatta

    Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Andrew Foster-Williams. Performer: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • OPMC Classics 001.
    • CD3 TR15.
  • 00:50

    Igor Stravinsky

    Serenata (Pulcinella)

    Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
  • Adolf Loos

    Ornament & Crime, read by Anthony Howell

  • 00:54

    Anton Webern

    5 Canons on Latin Texts op.16 i. Christus factus est

    Singer: Christiane Oelze. Ensemble: Ensemble intercontemporain. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon 437 786-2.
    • TR25.
  • 00:54

    Anton Webern

    5 Canons on Latin Texts, Op.16

    Singer: Christiane Oelze. Ensemble: Ensemble intercontemporain. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
  • Amy Lowell

    The Artist, read by Lisa Dwan

  • 00:55

    Anton Webern

    5 Canons on Latin Texts op.16 ii. Dormi Jesu

    Singer: Christiane Oelze. Ensemble: Ensemble intercontemporain. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon 437 786-2.
    • TR26.
  • Ezra Pound

    Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, read by Anthony Howell

  • 00:58

    Anton Webern

    5 Canons on Latin Texts op.16 iv. Asperges me

    Singer: Christiane Oelze. Ensemble: Ensemble intercontemporain. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon 437 786-2.
    • TR28.
  • H.D.

    Sheltered Garden, read by Lisa Dwan

  • 01:01

    Duke Ellington

    The Mooche

    Performer: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
  • 01:01

    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

    The Mooche

  • Claude McKay

    On Broadway, read by Lisa Dwan

  • 01:05

    Arnold Schoenberg

    Suite for Piano op.25 v. Menuett & Trio

  • 01:05

    Arnold Schoenberg

    Suite for piano, Op.25 (5th mvt: Minuet and Trio)

    Performer: N.F.I.
  • Marcel Proust

    Remembrance of Things Past, read by Anthony Howell

  • 01:13

    Erik Satie

    Ludions, Chanson du Chat

    Performer: Philippe Entremont. Performer: Régine Crespin. Performer: Régine Crespin.

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