In his penultimate programme for 2021, William Dart looks back over the year and pursues themes of time passing, complexity versus simplicity, and the importance of legacy, with music by Peggy Seeger, Stephen Sondheim and our own Graeme Downes, with The Verlaines.
Graeme Downes Photo: RNZ / Tim Dodd
Highlights in this episode:
- another track from Peggy Seeger's new album First Farewell, which William featured earlier in the year;
- the CD release of The Verlaines' Dunedin Spleen, because William was finally able to get his hands on a booklet with information in it, having enjoyed the songs for two years already following the initial LP and digital release two years ago;
- a couple of wonderful tracks from The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes, which presents recordings from the Berkeley Folk Music Festival between 1958 and 1970 by a man charmingly described as a reel-to-reel rambler;
- a heartfelt tribute to the great composer Stephen Sondheim who died in November.
Music Details
ARTIST: Shona Laing
TITLE: 1905
ALBUM: Shooting Stars are Only Seen at Night
COMPOSER: Laing
LABEL: Frenzy
ARTIST: Peggy Seeger
TITLE: Dandelion and Clover
ALBUM: First Farewell
COMPOSER: P Seeger
LABEL: Red Grape
ARTIST: The Verlaines
TITLE: If They Cut off my hands
ALBUM: Dunedin Spleen
COMPOSER: Downes
LABEL: School Kids
ARTIST: The Verlaines
TITLE: Snappy Dressers
ALBUM: Dunedin Spleen
COMPOSER: Downes
LABEL: School Kids
ARTIST: The Verlaines
TITLE: A Wall Street Hooker's Deathbed
ALBUM: Dunedin Spleen
COMPOSER: Downes
LABEL: School Kids
ARTIST: The Verlaines
TITLE: None of these Chords
ALBUM: Dunedin Spleen
COMPOSER: Downes
LABEL: School Kids
ARTIST: Audrey Hepburn
TITLE: La vie en rose
ALBUM: A Touch of Class
COMPOSER: Piaf et al
LABEL: Milan
ARTIST: Hank Bradley, Rick Shubb
TITLE: Orange Blossom Special
ALBUM: The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes
COMPOSER: Rouse
LABEL: Smithsonian Folkways
ARTIST: Kathy & Carol
TITLE: Swallow Song
ALBUM: The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes
COMPOSER: Fariña
LABEL: Smithsonian Folkways
ARTIST: Antony De Mare
TITLE: Finishing the Hat
ALBUM: Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano
COMPOSER: Sondheim arr Reich
LABEL: ECM
ARTIST: Pacific Overture Original Broadway cast
TITLE: Poems
ALBUM: Pacific Overtures
COMPOSER: Sondheim
LABEL: RCA
ARTIST: Diana Rigg, Lesley-Anne Down
TITLE: Every Day a Little Death
ALBUM: A Little Night Music
COMPOSER: Sondheim
LABEL: Columbia
ARTIST: Stephen Sondheim
TITLE: Send in the Clowns
ALBUM: Sondheim Sings Volume 1
COMPOSER: Sondheim
LABEL: PS Classics
