The Four Elements: FIRE

SET LIST:  “FIRE”

Music

Richard Straus “Four Last Songs: “Frühling” Kiri Te Kanawa   Andrew Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra
(Great Performances)

Liz Carroll & Johnny Doyle
“Before the Storm” and “Black Rogue” from their album “Double Play”

from the soundtrack of the film “YES” by Sally Potter
Josquin des Pres, Motet  The Hilliard Ensemble ”
B.B. King & Eric Clapton “Ten Long Years”
Adele “Set Fire to the Rain”  composers: Adele Adkins & Fraser T. Smith
Bonnie Raitt “I Will Not Be Broken”  (Souls Alike: Capitol Records)
Igor Stravinsky, “Firebird Suite” guitar: Kazuhito Yamashita (RCA Victor)
Nancy Thorwardson, “My Prairie Home” from “Colorado Swing” (Produced by Nancy Thorwardson and John McVey)
Liz Carroll & Johnny Doyle “The Quitter” & “Remove the Rug” from “Double Play”

Literature

“Snake” by Sam Kuznetsov
“What Happened During the Ice Storm” by Jim Heynen
from The One Room Schoolhouse (Knopf)

“Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost
“The Housewife” by Ginger Andrews
“All This and More” Mary Karr
“Icarus” Christine Hemp
“Coal Fire in Winter” Thomas McGrath

 

About Christine Hemp

Poet and writer Christine Hemp has aired her poems and essays on NPR’s Morning Edition; she has sent a poem of hers into space on a NASA mission to monitor the birth of stars; and her essays have appeared in such publications as the Iowa Review, Yale Anglers Journal, and the Boston Globe. Her awards include Harvard Extension School’s Conway Award for Teaching Writing, a Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship for Literature, and an Iowa Review Award. Her poetry collection, That Fall, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2011. Hemp teaches at the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival.
Poems and Ponderings

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