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31 Dec 03 - 02:55 PM (#1083349) Subject: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: GUEST,Frances |
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31 Dec 03 - 02:57 PM (#1083352) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: Ed. Does it matter in anyway what the text is? |
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31 Dec 03 - 03:06 PM (#1083355) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: GUEST,MMario WOW! a five minute recitation is LONG! I'm wondering the same thing as Ed - what is this for; should it be slanted in some direction, etc. |
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31 Dec 03 - 03:08 PM (#1083357) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: Micca "Lepanto" by GK Chesterton, wonderful, alliterative, and would take about 5 mins |
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31 Dec 03 - 03:09 PM (#1083359) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: GUEST,Frances |
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31 Dec 03 - 03:12 PM (#1083362) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: GUEST The topic does not matter. It is for a compitetion, I personally like action in the piece. |
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31 Dec 03 - 03:12 PM (#1083363) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: Ed. Thanks for the clarification, Frances! *grin* |
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31 Dec 03 - 03:18 PM (#1083368) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: Micca In That case Definately try Lepanto here |
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31 Dec 03 - 04:13 PM (#1083413) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: Uncle_DaveO I haven't timed it, but if I were you I'd look into the cowboy poem, Reincarnation. Sure crowd pleaser, if it's long enough! Might even be in the DT; check it out. Dave Oesterreich |
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31 Dec 03 - 06:05 PM (#1083509) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: Maryrrf Lot's of the long ballads might work. I sometimes do a version of "Mattie Groves" that's part recitation part sung. Or how about Tam O'Shanter. If it's funny, try "The Humours of Whiskey" - that has tons of verses and I think it's in the DT. |
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31 Dec 03 - 06:16 PM (#1083512) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: GUEST,Henryp The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. THE wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding — Riding — riding — The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door. Full words available on the web. Recorded by several singers. Andy Irvine says; Okay, a lot of people have recorded this old classic poem before me. I think Phil Ochs was the first and I, myself, played on a version of Danny Doyle's back in the Eighties. A couple of years ago, I was asked to play on a version being recorded by Loreena McKennitt, the Canadian Singer and Harpist. She sent me a demo cassette and we met in Dublin but, unfortunately our schedules didn't allow that we should meet in the studio. I was much taken with her tune and started doing the song myself. I think I've changed the odd word here and there and I hope the Shade of Alfred Noyes will forgive me. At least, Alfred, this is the first complete recorded version of your poem as a song-(to my knowledge..) |
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31 Dec 03 - 10:20 PM (#1083643) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: cobber The Man From Snowy River by Banjo Patterson takes about that long |
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31 Dec 03 - 10:45 PM (#1083657) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: mack/misophist I vote for Lepanto, too. As my English Lit book put it, "It's doggerel, but glorious doggerel." You could introduce it with a short commentary abour how this was the battle that broke Muslim sea power in the east Mediterranean and how a very find brandy was named after it, also. |
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01 Jan 04 - 12:46 AM (#1083694) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: Naemanson I do a peice by Ruth Moore called The The Ballad of the Three Green Waves. That times out to about 5 minutes. |
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01 Jan 04 - 07:43 AM (#1083790) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: Peter K (Fionn) If you don't want doggerel, you could try "The Man from God Knows Where" by Florence Wilson. Unfortunately an ear for rural Ulster dialect is more or less essential. |
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01 Jan 04 - 11:24 AM (#1083877) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: SINSULL Cremation Of Sam McGee The Face On The Barroom Floor (probably not five minutes) |
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01 Jan 04 - 01:41 PM (#1083990) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: GUEST,Frances Thanks folks, this is fun, keep them coming |
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01 Jan 04 - 05:28 PM (#1084140) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: GUEST,.gargoyle GUNGA DIN by Kipling
http://www.bartleby.com/103/48.html
Can also be sung
What sort of competition? What sort of age group? What sort of past experience are you bringing into this? What country? Answers to these questions can speed your quest....and help determine if it should be Suess or Samual Collerage, R.W. Service or Shilverstein, Kipling or Christ.
Sincerely, |
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01 Jan 04 - 06:32 PM (#1084193) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: Peter K (Fionn) You could strike a sombre, melodramatic note with the proclamation of the Irish Republic (Easter 1916). I'd say it's exactly five minutes at recitation pace. My eye lit on one mistake in the version for which I've given a link. There may be others. If this became your choice, let me know and I'll give you the correction(s) or point to a clean version on the net. |
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02 Jan 04 - 07:29 AM (#1084452) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: GUEST,brioc hi Frances, My mother does a terrific one called "Says She". Do you have a good dublin accent? Pretty important. Let me know, and if you like I will post it. Its about the queeen coming on a visit to Ireland once! |
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02 Jan 04 - 08:37 AM (#1084481) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: breezy Mike Agranoff has a couple of really interesting and dramatic pieces. Monologues?? if its entertaining and holds the listeners attention then you've a better chance. Avoid the hackneyed |
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03 Jan 04 - 02:45 AM (#1085104) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: GUEST,JTT Horation at the Bridge? "Lars Porsena of Clusium, by the nine gods he swore That the brave name of Clusium would suffer wrong no more...." (or something like that) Or another goodie is Burke's speech on the French Revolution, with the lines: "Oh! what a revolution! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. " Great foaming-at-the-mouth stuff. I've heard that Burke's own delivery was so deadly dull that the chamber would empty when he stood to speak, but it's wonderful stuff to read. You'll find it in Bartleby.com. |
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03 Jan 04 - 03:52 AM (#1085106) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: Micca JTT For Horatius, The "lars Porsena poem, try here Thomas Babington Macaulay |
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03 Jan 04 - 07:30 AM (#1085157) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: Snuffy The Lion and Albert and other Marriott Edgar/Stanley Holloway monologues are usually aroun the five minute mark |
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04 Jan 04 - 02:37 PM (#1085886) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: GUEST,Frances Hi folks Thanks for all the help.the competition is for a piece with Irish orientation either a story , recitation/ monologue. It can be dramatic or comedy about any subject, under 6 minutes, I am not very well up to date in computer life, I am just about plodding away. I would love if Brioc would post "Say's she". Lots and lots of thanks |
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04 Jan 04 - 02:46 PM (#1085893) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: help me find a 5 minute recitation From: GUEST,vectis Try the "Make em laugh" website, find it through google etc. There is also a monologues site which I once had the link for but lost it when I changed computers after a spike bu***red my old one. |
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04 Jan 04 - 03:01 PM (#1085901) Subject: Lyr Add: WEE DAVY SHAW (James Young) From: GUEST Is this Irish enough? WEE DAVY SHAW Wee Davy Shaw – he's seven, asked his mother "Why can't I go to church with Pat O'Shea? Pat's church is just around the corner and Mine is more than half a mile away." "Ye can't go to his church his mother toul him Pat's a Roman Catholic you're a Prod" "Is that the reason", Davy asked in wonder? "Then Catholics have a different God". "Their God's the same as ours" his mother toul him "But they worship in a slightly different way" "Then I could do it that way too", says Davy "And I could learn it all from Pat O'Shea." "Och, shut your mouth "his mother said, exasperated "I want to hear no more of that from you" "I think it's daft", wee Davy toul her "And I'm sure that God thinks it's, it's very foolish too." "I toul ye shut your mouth "his mother toul him "Away to bed and let me hear no more I've half a mind to tell yer Da about you an I'm sure he'd leave your backside sore." Wee Davy Shaw – he's seven, asked his Father "Why can't I go to school with Pat O'Shea? Pat's school is just around the corner an Mine is more than half a mile away." "Ye can't go to his school "his Father answered I've toul ye that a thousand times or more" "But what's the reason Da?" wee Davy asked him "In Catholic schools is two and two not four." "Do they not learn reading and spelling? Geometry and geography like us" "Ye just don't understand his father toul him It’s its history that causes all the fuss." "But I'm not learning history yet” says Davy "And even if I was do you know what I could do I could learn all the other things they teach them an Then I could learn my history from you." "You're not to go to his school", his Father toul him "And don't let me find you next nor near the place" "But Pat's my friend", wee Davy toul him And the tears were burning bitter furrows, down his face. Wee Davy Shaw – he's seven, asked his Mother "Why can't I go and play with Pat O'Shea Pat's house is just around the corner and All my friends are more than half a mile away." His mother gently put her arms around him She said, "I know that Pat's a very decent kid I wouldn't mind you playing with him but But your daddy wouldn't like it if ye did." "Now I know it's hard for you to understand it But that's the way it is she said, now, son You wouldn't like to cause your daddy any trouble" Wee Davy sobbed an and gently shook his head But that night Davy's mother asked her husband "Why, can't Wee Davy go and play with Pat O'Shea" He said, "Because we can't get friendly with them Fenians Whatever would our friends and neighbours say." But in his heart, he knew that was no answer And next night in the pub, I heard him say "A Prod's a Prod and a Catholic is a Catholic So why can't Wee Davy go and play with Pat O'Shea." I shook my head and – I couldn't give an answer "It's not your fault or mine," I said to him "If that's the way your friends and neighbours want it Don't ask me the question you ask them." Two tiny kids who just want to laugh and play together But their Fathers won't allow it, they're afraid Afraid of the jibes and taunts of some bitter Bigots What sort of bloody country have we made? I'll toast the Queen, but if a man's a Catholic It's just because he knows no other way So I'm asking you out there, the people Why can't Wee Davy go and play with Pat O'Shea? James Young |