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Ken Baldry's Talks - List of lectures available |
The talks are accompanied by images projected by a video projector attached to his laptop computer. The music talks also have built-in examples.
If you would like Ken to give a talk, contact him by e-mail on this link or by telephone on 020 7359 6294.
Ken can bring a video projector if your club does not have access to one.
For music talks, if your premises does not have one, he has a decent portable speaker system.
As Ken is a crumbly, he does not have travel expenses in London.
Most talks are available in one-hour versions (•) & many, also in three-quarter hour (cruise ship length) versions (•).
Ken describes, with copious slides, his walk all the way across Switzerland from Austria to France, all on foot.
This talk extended from further East in Austria in 2009.
The walk over many passes between these two famous mountain villages.
One can walk from & to Innsbrück Airport round the Stübai & Gschnitztaler
with no other transport apart from feet.
An introduction for 'beginners'
An amateurish movie film of two weeks in Southern Switzerland
A dozen brilliant songs not in the commonly-heard 'top 100' (out of 648)
Excerpts from six composers, with comparisons of Schumann & Mahler settings
Excerpts from sixteen composers, with two full Strauss waltzes, by Johann II & Josef
Excerpts from 14 pieces that ought to be better known & Ken cannot live without
Fact (as up-to-date as possible) & legend with musical settings for both.
'Spanish' music by non-Spanish composers.
Introducing 15 pieces of music about the sea by British composers.
15 pieces of sea-related music by impudent composers from abroad.
Music items related to my autobiography.
...with Suffolk views & notes about the Baldry Family History Society
...goes back to the Roman Empire! With many illustrations & two battle explanations.
Contact: Ken Baldry, 17 Gerrard Road, Islington, London N1 8AY +44(0)20 7359 6294 or e-mail him
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Last revised 23/1/2012 Copyright ©Ken Baldry 2006-2012 All rights reserved.