Hempsonian Institute of Higher Yearning

MUSIC

“Fireflies”  OWL CITY from their album “Ocean Eyes”
“From a Distance”  NANCI GRIFFITH           from      “Lone Star State of Mind”
“ToadEater” Hedningarna   Groda/Wedergrenefrom Northside: NORDIC ROOTS contemp. Laplander and  Scandanavian music.
” Stabat Mater” Pergolesi  June Anderson Cecilia Bartoli    Charles Dutoit  Sinfonietta de Montreal
“Bierdna” Hedningarna Nordic Roots Contemporary Laplander and Scandanavian music
“Tocatta & Fugue in d minor” J.S. Bach  James Welch on Flentrop Organ;  Wilson Audiofile
“Bang Zoom” Bobby McFerrin from CD of same name Blue Note Contemporary Capitol Records 1995
“Mountains” Lonestar  from their CD “Mountains” BMG Music 2005
“Arabia”  David Grisman, Jerry Garcia from their album Grisman & Garcia 1991 Acoustic Disc

POEMS

Linda Gregg “We Manage Most When We Manage Small”
Christine Hemp “Tunneling”
Ted Kooser “Mother”
Louise Glück, “Wild Iris”

SET LIST: “AIR”

MUSIC

Evergreen “Second Wind” from their album “Common Place”
Robert Mirabal Live on Native American Flute “Uta’s Song” from his album “Story of Land”
Cathal McConnell on whistle and flute “”Crowley’s/O’Rourke’s and Yorkshire Lasses From the album
“Long Expectant Comes at Last”
Stan Getz plays Louis Bonfa from “Jazz Samba Encore!”1963 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Talking Heads “Air” from “Fear of Music” Remastered
Bach’s Goldburg Variations, Julie Steinberg
Chant Gregorien et Polyphonie a “L’Abbaye du Bec-Hellouin  EMI Records 1973 & 1976
Michael Hamilton “Londonderry Air” (Danny Boy)from “The Pipes are Calling, Traditional Rebel and War Tunes Highland Bagpipes
Chet Atkins, “Londonderry Air” (Danny Boy) from “The Early Years” 1955-1956″
Joel Levy, “At Last” from The Best of Cafe Combo, recorded at the Upstage, Port Townsend

LITERATURE

Richard Wilbur “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” from Collected Poems, 2004 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Mark Strand “Keeping Things Whole”                                                                                       Liam Dubar “Sounds”
Christine Hemp “Symmetry”

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

LITERATURE

Christine Hemp  “Cloud”
Bruce Bond “Ravel”
Jeannette Walls “Half Broke Horses”
Rumi “Story Water”

MUSIC

Phillip Glass soundtrack from “The Hours”
Mozart “Adagio for Glass Harmonica K. 617 Bruno Hoffman
Songs of the Humpback Whale  Frank Watlington
Maurice Ravel “Pavane for a Dead Princess” saxophone Claude Delangele, Lan Shui and Singapore Symphony from Works for Saxophone and Orchestra
Alison Krauss “Down the River to Pray” soundtrack from the film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Tom Russell & Iris Dement”Big Water Rising”   from the album Long Way Round, Hightone Records
Hiroko Masaki, Ingrid Procureur & Marc Grauwels “Haru No Umi” The Flute Collection Japanese Melodies
Brett Dennen “Ain’t No Reason” from “So Much More”
George Frederick Handel “Water Music” HWV 3480350 Ondrej Lenard & Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Muddy Waters “Stormy Monday” from “Live at Mr. Kelly’s

“Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.  The odors for fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away. Helen Keller

MUSIC

Lynyrd Skynyrd – “That Smell”
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan      from “Back to Qawwali”(Long Distance Records, Wagram Label, Montreuil, France)
Karrin Allyson, “You Don’t Know What Love Is”  Karrin Allyson Ballads, Remembering John Coltrane Kampo Audio Studios, New York, NY
Eavan Orman Combo “Tango”
John Prine & Alice Dement “In Spite of Ourselves”  from the album “In Spite of Ourselves” Principally recorded at Jack’s Tracks and MCA Publishing Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
Misia, from “Garras Dos Sentidos”  Erato Discs, Paris France
Manu Chao, “King of the Bongo” from Mano Negra    Conny’s Studio (1990-1991)
Bach, from Sonatas & Partitas; Itzhak Perlman  EMI Classics

LITERATURE

Hafiz,  “If the Scent of Her Hair” Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” Act II scene ii
Rikki Ducournet “Gazelle” Knopf, 2003; Vintage, 2004; Gallimard, French translation, 2007; Fanucci, Italian translation, 2003.
Christine Hemp “The Garden at Escazu”
Hafiz “Stop Being So Religious”
William Matchett “The Water Ouzel”
Diane Ackerman, “A Natural History of the Senses”

TOUCH

LITERATURE
Diane Ackerman “Natural History of the Senses”
Christine Hemp “An Abstract Art”
Marie Howe “Practicing”
Stephen Dunn, “Tenderness”
Brian McGrath “Mad Nude Mommies”
Jack Gilbert “Music is in the Piano Only When it is Played”

MUSIC
James Brown “I Feel Good”
Imogen Heap, “Hide and Seek”
Rufus Wainwright singing Leonard Cohen “Everybody Knows” from “ “
Billie Holiday Holiday, “Sweet Embraceable You”
Stan Getz
Low Anthem, “Oh, My God, Charlie Darwin”
Mary McCaslin, “A Prairie in the Sky”
Raul Midon, “If You Gonna Leave”
Frederick Chopin, Etude

THE EAR

LISTEN TO THE SHOW:

“THE EAR”

POEMS
Stanley Kunitz “The Round”
Christine Hemp “Outgrowing My Body”
Robert Frost “Mending Wall”
Celia Rose Langford “Spring”
Sandy Diamond “Identity” from her CD Quasimodo and the Bellringers with Bruce Cannavaro, Bruce Cowan, and David George Gordon
Marvin Bell “Poem after Carlos
Drummond de Andrade”

MUSIC

Josh White “One Meat Ball” Josh White Sings The Blues & Sings Volumes 1 & 2 1995 Collectibles label
Nico Muhly “Mothertongue” from “Mothertongue” 2008 Brassland Records
John Rutter “Choral Fanfare” from the album “Te Deum” City of London Sinfonia 1993
Bud Shank “How are things in Glocca Morra” and “On Green Dolphin Street” (1980 Concord Jazz)
J.S. Bach allegro movement of Brandenburg Concerto #5  Collegium Stuttgart;  Hanssler Classics 1999
David Byrne “Like Humans Do” from “Look Into the Eyeball (Virgin 2001)

MUSIC
Lyle Lovett “Church”
Ned Rorem (to an Andrew Glaze poem “A Journey”) sung by Susan Graham
Soundtrack from Big Night “Mambo Italiano”
William Byrd “The Great Service” Magnificat sung by Tallis Scholars
Louis Armstrong “Cheesecake”
Christine Hemp “Maple Syrup Song”
Toni Childs “Walk and Talk like the Angels”

POEMS
Hafiz   “Let’s Eat”
Jane Hirschfield  “Wine Grapes for Breakfast”
Frank O’Hara  “Why I am Not a Painter”
Li Po   “Traveling Song”
Christine Hemp “At the Blue Diner”
Etheridge Knight  “A Watts Mother Mourns While Boiling Beans
Aiden (3rd Grade) “Chocolatey Tongue”
Pablo Neruda “Drunk as Drunk”
Hafiz  “The Seed Cracked Open”
Levertov “O Taste and See”

ANNE’S PERFECT SCONES

MELT:  I cube of butter in small bowl

BEAT (lightly)  1 C. buttermilk and 1 egg in another bowl

MIX    (in a third bowl):

3  1/2 C. flour

1/3  C.     sugar

2 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

to this dry mix you may add raisins, dried currents, fresh blueberries, orange and/or lemon zest, nuts or whatever pleases you

STIR (with big wooden spoon) Wet mixture into Dry. Then add the melted butter

Then KNEAD GENTLY with hands only so all the dry is covered; do not over-knead

SHAPE  into ball

on a lightly floured surface PRESS BALL into a nice circle 1 inch high

CUT in half, then half again and then again so you have 8 fat triangles

DRIBBLE with sugar, if you wish

PLACE on cookie sheet

BAKE @ 400 degrees for 15 minutes

VOILA! Hot scones for breakfast!

MUSIC
“Moving Cloud”  Matt Molloy (“Heathery Breeze”)
“When Love Comes to Town” Herbie Hancock & Joss Stone (“Possibilities”)
“Fields of Gold” Eva Cassidy (Songbird)
“The Chair” George Strait (Best of George Strait)
“Butterfly” traditional (soundtrack from Roan Inish, John Sayles)
“Eye of the Hurricane” David Wilcox
“Pacem” Estonian Philharmonic Choir
“Just My Imagination” Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (Best of Motown)

POETRY
“Seeing Red”  Christine Hemp
“The Tiger” William Blake
“Butterfly Butterfly” Third grade student, Grant Street Elementary School
“Feathering” Galway Kinnell
“The Word” Tony Hoagland

Van Gogh’s Yellow Chair. Arles, 1888

Van Gogh ached to have friends, artist friends to hang with. He invited Gaugin to Arles that winter of 1888 with high expectations: The Yellow House. The comeraderie. The cooking and shared ideas. Gauguin prowled for women at night, got fed up with Van Gogh’s intensity. Of course, the ear situation didn’t help matters. All in all, the collaboration was a huge disappointment for Van Gogh.  To look closely at Van Gogh’s winter renditions of each painter’s chair says a lot about how he perceived himself –and his fairweather friend. What do you see?

Van Gogh:   Gaugin’s Red Chair, Arles 1888