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Ken Baldry's Talks - List of lectures available |
Ken has lectures available on Mountaineering, Music & Family History,
which he is willing to give to societies in the London area.
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 (•).
Mountain Talks
The Cross-Swiss Walk • •
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 from Chamonix to Zermatt •
The walk over many passes between these two famous mountain villages.
Plodding round the Stübaital •
One can walk from & to Innsbrück Airport round the Stübai & Gschnitztaler
with no other transport apart from feet.
The Beautiful English Lake District •
An introduction for 'beginners'
Summer in the Pennine Alps •
An amateurish movie film of two weeks in Southern Switzerland
Music Talks
Life & Works talks (in order of birth date)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) - the Father of so much • •
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - the greatest of them all • •
Schubert (1797-1828) - song for voices & instruments • •
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) - It's all about the Piano • •
Music as Love, Love as Music - Robert (1810-1856) & Clara Schumann • •
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) - the pianist, the composer, the man • •
(note - Liszt's 200th birthday in 2011)
Wagner (1813-1883) - a new concept of Opera • •
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - Lawyer becomes Composer • •
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) - Singer of the Song of Norway •
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) - The Outsider •
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) - Triumph over adversity • •
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) - Denmark's Greatest Composer •
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) - The Last Romantic • •
Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) - What makes an "English" Composer? • •
Arnold Schönberg (1873-1951) - the Father of 'Nasty Modern Music' • •
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975) - the Yurodivy composer • •
Aspects of Music talks
Neglected great Schubert Songs •
A dozen brilliant songs not in the commonly-heard 'top 100' (out of 648)
The "Faust" legend in Music • •
Excerpts from six composers, with comparisons of Schumann & Mahler settings
The Waltz 1815 - 1915 • •
Excerpts from sixteen composers, with two full Strauss waltzes, by Johann II & Josef
Off the Beaten Track • •
Excerpts from 14 pieces that ought to be better known & Ken cannot live without
King Arthur, fact, legend & music • •
Fact (as up-to-date as possible) & legend with musical settings for both.
They came to Spain • •
'Spanish' music by non-Spanish composers.
British Music of the Sea •
Introducing 15 pieces of music about the sea by British composers.
Johnny Foreigner's Sea Music •
15 pieces of sea-related music by impudent composers from abroad.
My Life in Music •
Music items related to my autobiography.
Genealogy Talks
Ken's Father's family •
...with Suffolk views & notes about the Baldry Family History Society
Ken's Mother's family •
...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
This page's URL: http://www.art-science.com/Ken/talks.html
Last revised 23/1/2012 Copyright ©Ken Baldry 2006-2012 All rights reserved.