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The White Hat Guide to Classical Music with Spoken Word

  • Lambert Mr Bear Squash-you-all-flat - A children's story for narrator and chamber ensemble.
  • Walton Facade
  • Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf
  • Britten Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - was originally written for a film. Britten later published it as a concert work which can be performed ether with or without a narrator.
  • Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals - Although the original score does not call for a narrator, this work is often performed with short poems between the sections. The most popular poems used for this purpose ae those by Ogden Nash.

Selected sheet music with spoken word

Some forthcoming performances in Australia featuring music with spoken word:

Southern Cross Soloists - Showcase Series - Concert 2

The Southern Cross Soloists with special guests Patricia Pollett (viola) and Gregory Massingham (narrator) perform:

  • Pleyel Quintet for piano and winds
  • Haydn (arr Dean) Arianna a Naxos
  • Grieg (arr Dean) Excerpts from the Incidental Music to Ibsen’s Peer Gynt
6.30pm, Tuesday September 23 2008

Conservatorium Theatre, South Bank, Brisbane -

Bookings (07) 3735 6351

 

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