Footloose
Irma Kurtz considers how, for footloose travellers, the journey has to be more challenging and enlightening than its destination.
Irma Kurtz considers how curiosity and imagination inspire true footloose travellers to explore.
She reflects that, for her, the important part of travel is encountering others on the road: learning how different we are, and how alike. Irma believes that by extending your view of the world, you extend your view of yourself so that, by the end of your journey, you will have changed.
To illustrate her footloose theme we hear readings from the work of John Keats, Walt Whitman and Mary Morris as well as an extract from her own travel book 'The Great American Bus Ride'. Music is provided by composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar and Claude Debussy.
The readers are Liza Sadovy and Col Farrell.
Producer: Ronni Davis
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Vincent d鈥橧ndy
En Marche
Performer: Orchestre Philharmonique de Pays de Loire
- Jour D鈥檈te A La Montagne, Etc.
- EMI Classics.
- CDM7643642.
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Claude Debussy
Reverie
Performer: Kathryn Stott
- Debussy: L鈥橧SLE JOSEUSE.
- Conifer.
- CDCF148.
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Randall Thompson
The Road Not Taken
Performer: New York Choral Society and Manhattan Chamber Orchestra
- The Testament of Freedom.
- Koch.
- 3-7283-2H1.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Vagabond
Performer: Benjamin Luxon and David Willison
- Songs of Travel.
- Chandos.
- CHAN8475.
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Zolt谩n Kod谩ly
The Gypsy
Performer: Kodaly Girls Choir on EMI Classics
- Kodaly: ODE FOR MUSIC.
- HUNGAROTON.
- HCD31524.
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Cole Porter
Don't Fence Me In
Performer: Bing Crosbie
- Bing Crosbie: The best of......
- MCA Records.
- DMCL1607.
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Cahn/van Heusen
It's very nice to go trav'ling
Performer: Frank Sinatra
- Come fly with me.
- Capitol Records.
- MW0000194130.
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