Roving With The Arts: with Mick Hesse Featuring Emily Pope

Poet Emily Pope joins Mick Hesse on this Roving With The Arts. 

Roving With Arts with Mick Hesse: Poet Dennis Mathis

Dennis Mathis has lived in Farmington since 1977. He and his wife Nancy have been married for 52 years and have four grown, married children and three grandchildren. He has always had a lively interest in literature and writing.
“Romantic Words and Music” features poetry narrated by Dennis Mathis and music by Barber, Mahler, Elgar, Barry, and Vaughn Williams. Mr. Mathis has chosen music as a backdrop to his creative thoughts and poetry.

Write On Four Corners: Author Miriam Sagan

Miriam Sagan is the author of over 30 books of poetry, fiction, and memoir. She is a two-time winner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards, a recipient of the City of Santa Fe Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, and a New Mexico Literary Arts Gratitude Award recipient. She also founded and directed the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College until her retirement. On this week's episode of Write-On! Four Corners, Sagan will discuss her newest book, a flash memoir, entitled "Stash"with new host DelSheree Gladden!

Roving With The Arts with Mick Hesse; Poet Samuel Galbraith

Samuel Galbraith entwines his poetry with selected pieces from Bach’s 15 Two-Part Inventions. Samuel chose various instruments to enhance his readings of some of his recent poetry.

Roving With The Arts with Mick Hesse.

Tune in to relax with your host Mick Hesse as he plays a wide range of early classical music. This weeks episode also includes Third Coast Percussion. 

Roving with the Arts: SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 13 in B flat minor op 113 “Babi Yar”

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 13 in B flat minor op 113 “Babi Yar”,written in memory of the over 33,000 Jews murdered in Babi Yar, Ukraine in 1941. Shostakovich set 5 poems by Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Gangnus to music in 5 movements. Valery Gergiev conducts the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra

Roving with the Arts: “Hope, not Hate part 2” Dedicated to Jozef Koprinski

 Dedicated to Jozef Koprinski 
“Hope, not Hate part 2” is the first program in a series of transitional music and composers who survived the death camps of Nazi Germany and Poland after WW2

Roving with the Arts: “Hope, not Hate” #18 dedicated to Edmund Jones Lilly. 1894-1978

Col. Lilly was born in North Carolina and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1915. In 1917, he received a commission in the regular Army. In 1941 he was sent to Manila in the Philippines to serve in the U.S. Army's Philippine Division. He became the commander of the 57th Philippine Scout Regiment. The unit served on Bataan during the Japanese invasion. He became a P.O.W. in April 1942 when the Americans surrendered to the Japanese. For the next 40 months he was in various Japanese P.O.W. camps. To keep his sanity, he maintained a diary in tiny notebooks. In addition to the diary he wrote down poems, songs, recipes, rules for Bridge and everything he could remember. 

Roving with the Arts: “Hope Not Hate” #17 Dedicated to Erwin Schulhoff

Roving with the Arts: “Hope, Not Hate” #16 dedicated to Victor Ullmann

On 8 September 1942 Ullmann was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp.  The particular nature of the camp at Theresienstadt enabled Ullmann to remain active musically: he was a piano accompanist, organized concerts ("Collegium musicum", "Studio for New Music"), wrote critiques of musical events, and composed. He wrote: "By no means did we sit weeping on the banks of the waters of Babylon. Our endeavor with respect to arts was commensurate with our will to live."
On 16 October 1944 he was deported to the camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where on 18 October 1944 he was killed in the gas chambers.
 
One writer has described Ullmann's milieu in these terms: "Like such other assimilated German-speaking Czech Jews as Kafka and Mahler, Ullmann lived a life of multiple estrangements, cut off from Czech nationalism, German anti-Semitism and Jewish orthodoxy”.