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 All About the Bard on this week’s “Picture This” radio show

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If you missed Picture This 111: All About the Bard ( which aired on WRIU, 90.3 FM, and streamed at wriu.org on Sunday, November 23, from 6-8 PM), you can catch it on the Mischief Time Blog at wcressser.com

(This program aired on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org, on Sunday, November 23, from 6-8 PM)

By Wayne Cresser

Coming Attractions from Matinee, composed by Jerry GoldsmithThe It’s a Movie Song of the Week

King Henry Fifth’s Conquest of France from 1000 Years of Popular Music, traditional, performed by Richard Thompson

From Kiss Me Kate, all songs composed by Cole Porter

And So to Wed, performed by the MGM Orchestra

It’s Too Darn Hot, performed by Ann Miller

Brush Up Your Shakespeare, performed by Keenan Wynn and James Whitmore

The Picnic from Much Ado About Nothing, composed by Patrick Doyle, performed by Emma Thompson

This Day is called The Feast of St. Crispian from Henry V and Great Speeches of Shakespeare, words by William Shakespeare, music William Walton, performed by Sir Laurence Olivier

Two pieces from Henry V, composed by Patrick Doyle

St Crispian’s Day

Non Nomis Domine

Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet, composed by Nino Rota

The Willow Song from Othello, composed by Charlie Mole, performed by Irene Jacob

Lear and The Storm from King Lear, composed by Philip Glass

From Hamlet, composed by Patrick Doyle

Fanfare

What Players Are They

Sweets to the Sweet

You Stop My Heart from Ophelia, composed by Steven Price

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from Hamlet, composed by Carter Burwell,

Hamlet from Red, Hot and Blue, composed by Frank Loesser, performed by Betty Hutton

The Village from The Art of the Lute, composed by Robert Ballard, performed by Ronn McFarlane

Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (Sonnet 116), written by Willaim Shakespeare, performed by Dame Judi Dench

Medley/Come Down to the Yellow Sea/Full Fathom Five from The Tempest, performed by Lawrence Shragge and Kuhoo Verma

Intermezzo Agreste (Rural Interlude) from Chimes at Midnight, composed by Antonio Francesco Lavagnino

Lines from Act V, Scene I of The Merchant of Venice, performed by Sir John Gielgud

Come Away Death from Twelfth Night, composed by Daniel R. Meese, performed by Hem

From Hamlet, music composed by Carter Burwell, dialogue performed by Frances McDormand and Denzel Washington

Leave All the Rest to Me

Out Damned Spot

The End of Macbeth

Medley from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, composed by Felix Mendelssohn, reorchestrated by Eric Wolfgang Korngold

From Shakespeare in Love, music composed by Stephen Warbeck

Viola’s Audition

End title music

Dan’s Suite from Ghostlight, composed by Quinn Tsan

 

Source: Picture This Playlist 111: All About the Bard

Gallant Gulls and the Catunquit Chronicles

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Listen here to Gallant Gulls, Episode 55 of Catunquit Chronicles,

By Wayne Cresser

You can bet your intrepid scribe was as happy as Larry to get an invite from the hosts of The Catunquit Chronicles, James Allan and Ashland Comorack. I was asked to drop by for a chat and to read some of my short stories for their weekly podcast.

I had to scramble to get from the island where I live, Jamestown, to the smaller and more challenged one to our south called Catunquit. Think of Bedford Falls and Pottersville and the picture might come into focus for you.

I looked for guidance from the gallant Gulls mentioned in the title of the broadcast, and sure enough, they showed me where I needed to go, disproving my prior association of Catunquit with dissolute dreamers and lobster poachers.

If James and Ashland are any indication, it’s a fine place with fine people. And what’s more, anytime I get to talk about writing with people who are interested and ask savvy questions, I’m going to have a good time, which I did.

Source: Gallant Gulls and the Catunquit Chronicles

Listen to Nilsson’s “The Point” on new episode of “Picture This”

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(Originally broadcast on Sunday, November 19, on WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM, and streaming on wriu.org, from 7-8 PM) You can listen to the show here: All songs written and performed by Harry Nilsson fo…

By Wayne Cresser

Originally broadcast on Sunday, November 19, on WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM, and streaming on wriu.org, from 7-8 PM.

You can listen to the show here:

All songs written and performed by Harry Nilsson for the ABC TV broadcast of February 2, 1971.

Everybody’s Got “Em

The Town (narration)

Me and My Arrow

The Game (narration)

Poli High

The Trial and Banishment (narration)

Think About Your Troubles

The Pointed Man (narration)

Life Line

Life Line-Jimmy Webb and Ira Siegel

The Birds (narration)

P.O.V. Waltz

The Clearing in the Woods (narration)

Are You Sleeping?

Oblio’s return (narration)

The Cast and Crew from Skidoo, composed and performed by Harry Nilsson

I’m Mean (demo) from Popeye, composed and performed by Harry Nilsson

He Needs Me (demo) from Popeye, composed and performed by Harry Nilsson

Source: Playlist 26: Harry Nilsson’s The Point

Listen to “Jazz at the Movies” – music from “Pete Kelly’s Blues” and more

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Our friend and fellow-Hobbledehoy Wayne Cresser contributes the latest installment from his terrific weekly radio program, Picture This.

This week, Wayne further explores Jazz at the Movies, leading with a few choice cuts from crime movies, notably 1955’s “Pete Kelly’s Blues.” (The Hobbledehoy goes cuckoo for anything sung by Peggy Lee!)
There’s also music composed by Michel LeGrand, the great Duke Ellington and Herbie Hancock, and more. Dig it.

THE PLAYLIST:

  • “Hero to Zero” and Main Title from Anatomy of a Murder composed by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn 
  • Title Theme from Paris Blues, composed by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn 
  • “Strollin’ Blues” from Touch of Evil, composed by Henry Mancini
  • “Pete Kelly’s Blues” from Pete Kelly’s Blues, written by Pete Heindorf and Sammy Khan and performed by Ella Fitzgerald 
  • “Alfie’s Theme Differently” from Alfie, composed and performed by Sonny Rollins 
  • “Alfie” from Alfie, composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David performed by Cher 
  • Medley: Blues/La Dolce Vita Nobili from La Dolce Vita composed by Nino Rota 
  • “Sugar” (That Sugar Baby of Mine) from Pete Kelly’s Blues, composed by Edna Alexander Maceo Pinkard and Sidney Mitchell, performed by Peggy Lee
  • Main Title from New York New York composed by John Kander, performed by Ralph Burns 
  • “Flip the Dip” from New York, New York, composed by George Auld, performed by Ralph Burns 
  • “Movin’” from Hear My Song, composed by John Altman and Adrian Dunbar, performed by John Altman
  • “Song of the Twins” from The Young Girls of Rochefort, composed by Michel LeGrand, lyrics by Jacques Demy, and performed by Anne Germain and Claude Parent
  • “When I Fall in Love” from Good Luck and Good Night, composed by Victor Young, performed by Dianne Reeves
  • The Theme from Route 66, composed and arranged by Nelson Riddle 
  • “Bring Down the Birds” from Blow-Up, composed and performed by Herbie Hancock 
  • “Chan’s Song (Never Said)” from ‘Round Midnight, co-written by Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder
  • “Farewell My Lovely” from Farewell My Lovely, composed by David Shire
“Strollin’ Blues,” indeed! Orson Welles as Police Captain Hank Quinlan in Touch of Evil .

For the complete playlist from this and other episodes, proceed to Wayne’s blog Mischief Time

“Picture This” airs Monday evenings on WRIU: 90.3 FM the radio station for the University of Rhode Island. You can hear live streaming at wriu.org.