Category Archives: Podcasts

The 1903 Alice Movie

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Marco Graziosi

The whole of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (well, almost) in just 9 spectacular minutes, the original probably ran a bit longer as some scenes seem to be incomplete. On YouTube, in very low quality, but then I had never … Continue reading →

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Lear Vamping

Posted on August 31, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

Tennyson was always very satisfied with Lear’s arrangements of his poems and did not refrain from praising them in public though, as Angus Davidson notes in his 1938 biography, Edward Lear: Landscape Painter and Nonsense Poet (1812-1888) (London: John Murray), … Continue reading →

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Where did Nonsense go?

Posted on March 27, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

One of the questions which are often asked about Nonsense is, Why did it disappear almost completely from literature after the great season of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll? As M.B. Heyman writes in his thesis (Isles of Boshen: Edward … Continue reading →

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The Owl and the Pussycat Went to See. . .

Posted on March 16, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

The Owl and the Pussycat Wen to See… is a musical play adapted from the verses and stories of Edward Lear by Sheila Ruskin and David Wood (who wrote the music and lyrics). The LP (Philips 6308022) was published in … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear Music in Sanremo

Posted on January 11, 2006 by Marco Graziosi

At the end of 1997, the city of Sanremo held an exhibition of Edward Lear paintings and watercolours; there was also a concert of his Tennyson arrangements and of Dudley Glass’s settings of his poems on 7 December. Here is … Continue reading →

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The Time Draws Near the Birth of Christ

Posted on December 21, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear published two collections of arrangements of Alfred Tennyson’s poems. This first, in 1853, included four settings (‘Edward Gray’, ‘A Farewell’, ‘Tears, Idle Tears’, and ‘Sweet and Low’), the second, in 1859, added five more, including the one I … Continue reading →

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Nonsense Lyrics: Aba Daba Honeymoon

Posted on December 17, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

This week’s nonsense song has much in common with The Owl and the Pussy-cat; Aba Daba Honeymoon is another happy story of love and marriage, in this case between primates. It was written by Arthur Fields and Walter Donovan and … Continue reading →

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Elton Hayes: The Jumblies

Posted on December 15, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

The second song from Elton Hayes’s first Edward Lear record: The Jumblies.

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Gilbert Mack (1912-2005)

Posted on December 12, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

Cartoon Brew reports that Gilbert Mack passed away on 5 December 2005 at the age of 93. In addition to movies and lending his voice to several cartoon characters, Mack published 78-rpm records of his readings of two of Edward … Continue reading →

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Nonsense Lyrics: Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba

Posted on December 9, 2005 by Marco Graziosi

Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston, authors of last week’s Mairzy Doats, later teamed up with Mack David to form a trio specializing in nonsense songs: theirs are the famours Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo from Walt Disney’s Cinderella (1950) as well as … Continue reading →

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