In Search of Bohemia
Irma Kurtz remembers her quest to find bohemia with a small 'b'. Her personal odyssey in search of a non-materialistic, art-focused society took her to America, Paris and London.
Irma Kurtz remembers her quest to find bohemia with a small 'b'.
The bohemians had a hunger for art, literature and changing the rules and Irma's personal odyssey in search of a non-materialistic and art-focused society took her from Greenwich Village in Manhattan to the Left Bank in Paris and finally to London's Soho.
She considers the historical background to bohemia and wonders if it exist today. If not, why not and are we the poorer without it?
To illustrate her journey, Irma draws on extracts from the work of Henri Murger, Dylan Thomas and Alan Ginsberg and the music of Claude Debussy, Giacomo Puccini and Juliet Greco.
The readers are Liza Sadovy and Col Farrell.
Producer: Ronni Davis
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Claude Debussy
Danse Bohemienne
Performer: Livia Rev
- Claude Debussy (1862 1918) Piano Works Vol.2.
- Saga Classics.
- SCD 9020.
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Giacomo Puccini
ACT II, Aria: Quando me'n vo'soletta per la via'(Museeta's Waltz Song)
Performer: Hilde G眉den, Rolando Panerai, Siegfried Rudolf Frese, Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi, Giuseppe Taddei, Ivo Vinco and Chorus of the Vienna State Opera
- La Boheme.
- RCA Red Seal.
- 74321 57736 2.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
SYMPHONY 8 in F Major, Op.93, (1) Allegro Vivace con Brio
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bernard Haitink
- Beethoven Symphonies No. 1-9.
- iTunes.
- N/A.
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Juliette Gr茅co
Je suis comme je suis
Performer: Juliette Greco
- Je suis comme je suis.
- Phonogram.
- B0000084KP.
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Charlie Parker's Reboppers
Round Midnight
Performer: Miles Davis
- Round About Midnight.
- Columbia.
- 8869735442.
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Leonard Cohen
Bird on the Wire
Performer: Leonard Cohen
- Leonard Cohen: So Long, Marianne.
- Columbia.
- 460500 2.
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