Sunday Miscellany

New writing:

We Never Do That, by Barbara Scully;

The King of the Emperor, by Oliver Sears;

Ferry Crossings, by Evelyn Conlon;

Ballet Hands, by Kate Kerrigan

And

Appasionata, by John F Deane.

Music:

In Paradisum, from Fauré's Requiem, sung by the Choir of New College, Oxford, directed by Edward Higginbottom;

The second movement, Adagio, of Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto, The Emperor, played by Radu Lupu with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta;

Wellenspiel (Waves at Play), by Edwin Grass, played by Joshua Bell on violin with Samuel Sanders on piano;

And Beethoven’s Für Elise, played on piano by Valentina Lisitsa.