The Candlelight Reading Series presents “Stars, Songs, Poems, Planets”, a program of witty and ecstatic poems from many cultures and countries, including selections of three Fairfield poets and a few songs of The Beatles with as subject the sun, stars and planets on Saturday, January 27, 2007, 8 PM at Revelations, upstairs. Admission is free.

Poet/performer Freddy Niagara Fonseca, surrounded by first magnitude stars & planets such as Karen Carter performing also some eurythmy, Patricia Kirti Wood paraphrasing a Beatles medley accompanied by pianist Lise Mahima Marcell on keyboard will give you a taste of what poetry has to offer in the realm of the heavenly bodies.

PROGRAM

Stars, Songs, Poems, Planets

Gustav Holst - From The Planets: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity - Mahima, piano

Marianne Stone - Loretta the Luminary - Karen

From a North American Indian Song (Tewa Tribe, Rio Grande) - Song of the Sky Loom - Freddy

The Beatles - Across the Universe - Patricia, Karen, Freddy & Mahima

Ping Hsin - The Commonplace Puddle - Karen

Rolf Erickson - Mirror Lake - Karen

Freddy Niagara Fonseca - Dark Velvet - Freddy

Algonquin Song of the Stars - Freddy, Karen, eurythmy

The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun - Patricia, Karen, Freddy & Mahima

Walt Whitman - When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer - Patricia

Sappho - The Pleiades - Karen

Friedrich Nietzsche - Star Morals - Freddy

Sara Teasdale - Twilight - Patricia

John Milton - The Stars With Deep Amaze - Karen

Bill Godfrey - The Kingdom is Within - Bill

W. A. Mozart - Theme & Variations 1, 5, 6 on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star - Mahima, piano

Freddy Niagara Fonseca - Out of Darker Grace - Karen

Jason Sanford Brown - This Cold Night - Freddy

Freddy Niagara Fonseca - Black Hole - Freddy

William Butler Yeats - When You Are Old - Patricia & Mahima

The Planets Sing - Freddy, Karen, eurythmy

Robert Frost - Choose Something Like a Star - Karen

Archibald MacLeish - You, Andrew Marvell - Freddy

Freddy Niagara Fonseca - Lunar Eclipse - Freddy & Karen

Robert Frost - Lost in Heaven - Patricia & Mahima

Walt Whitman - A Clear Midnight - Patricia

W. A. Mozart - Variations 9, 8, 11, 12 on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star - Mahima, piano

Robinson Jeffers - And the Stars - Freddy

Robert Service - From "The Ballad of the Northern Lights" - Karen

The Beatles - The Fool on the Hill - Patricia

Freddy Niagara Fonseca - Arriving at the Top of Twin Peaks - Freddy

The Zodiac Speaks - Freddy, Karen, eurythmy

Robert Frost - Bravado - Karen

Percy Shelley - Palace-Roof of Cloudless Nights - Freddy

The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Patricia, Karen, Freddy & Mahima

Freddy Niagara Fonseca - A Zodiacal Fragment - Karen

Robert Frost - On Looking Up By Chance at the Constellations - Patricia

Hafez - All the Hemispheres - Freddy

The 2007 Readings

Design and copyright 2009 Freddy Niagara Fonseca

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