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Famous People You've Never Heard OfThe Forgotten Talent of Amanda Ira Aldridge, with Stephen Bourne & Patricia HammondAmanda Ira Aldridge, one of the most important female composers of the 20th century has been all but forgotten.Daughter of the groundbreaking actor Ira Aldridge, Amanda, was also a singer and in her latter years a voice teacher. One of her pupils was Paul Robeson who approached her when he cane to the UK to play Othello. He was only the second black actor to play the role. Amanda's father Ira had been the first!Under the name Montague Ring, Amanda was a composer of many songs and her instrumental music was used in the s...2021-10-2837 min
Break Out Culture With Ed Vaizey by Country and Town HouseEpisode #20 - Your Favourite Songs Specially Arranged, Performed and Streamed into Your Living RoomsEd and Charlotte are back from the Christmas break and plunged into another national lockdown! Don't worry, we won't be changing the name of the podcast again and will firmly remain Break Out Culture! They catch up with Patricia Hammond and Matt Redman on their online music commissioning service and share their latest TV and book recommendations.
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Living Room RequestsBelieve Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, Dear Old Donegal, Always, I Live The Life I loveAs fans of classical, Great American Songbook, traditional pop, nostalgia, show tunes, folk, and more: you, the audience, shape the future of this genre-busting, all-request live YouTube concert series. Welcome to the new Patricia Hammond and Matt Redman Living Room Requests podcast. Today, in the company of this lyrical mezzo-soprano and multi-instrumentalist, discover new music, and something familiar performed in a different way. An Irish songs special: some not as old as you might think! An enduring waltz by Irving Berlin, with a twist and a blues song, transformed for a different age with a special guest. Find out...2020-09-1720 min
Living Room RequestsMy Ain Folk, I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Who Knows Where The Time Goes, Batti, Batti O Bel MasettoAs fans of classical, Great American Songbook, traditional pop, nostalgia, show tunes, folk, and more: you, the audience, shape the future of this genre-busting, all-request live YouTube concert series. Welcome to the new Patricia Hammond and Matt Redman Living Room Requests podcast. Today, in the company of this lyrical mezzo-soprano and multi-instrumentalist, discover new music, and something familiar performed in a different way. An Aria from Mozart's Don Giovanni, as possibly never accompanied before? A song often thought of as a folk song but isn't quite that old or even from the country people expect it to be and...2020-09-1420 min
Living Room RequestsScarlet Ribbons, Ramona, Killing Me Softly, The First Time I Ever Saw Your FaceAs fans of classical, Great American Songbook, traditional pop, nostalgia, show tunes, folk, and more: you, the audience, shape the future of this genre-busting, all-request live YouTube concert series. Welcome to the Patricia Hammond and Matt Redman Living Room Requests podcast. Today, in the company of this lyrical mezzo-soprano and multi-instrumentalist, discover new music, and something familiar performed in a different way. Hear a double bill of songs sung by Roberta Flack in an creative and fresh way tired in with the folk revival, a bilingual song and a song that harks back to more simple time of children's...2020-09-1020 min
Living Room RequestsSend In The Clowns, The Beatles Blackbird, Galway Bay, Wind Beneath My WingsAs fans of classical, Great American Songbook, traditional pop, nostalgia, show tunes, folk, and more: you, the audience, shape the future of this genre-busting, all-request live YouTube concert series. Welcome to the Patricia Hammond and Matt Redman Living Room Requests podcast. Today, in the company of this lyrical mezzo-soprano and multi-instrumentalist, discover new music, and something familiar performed in a different way. A favourite from Sondheim, heard on the rare cross-strung harp and a popular song from the Beatles, eerily transformed by a 6-string instrument, but not the one you're thinking of! Wondering how old beloved 'timeless' Irish songs...2020-09-0718 min
Living Room RequestsDido's Lament, These Boots Are Made for Walkin, My Sister And I, All of Me John LegendWelcome to Patricia Hammond and Matt Redman Living Room Requests, now available in podcast format to spread the word and share the wonder for all. As fans of classical, Great American Songbook, traditional pop, nostalgia, show tunes, folk, and more, you shape the future of this live genre-busting, all-request live YouTube concert series. Discover new music, and something you know performed in a different way, by lyrical mezzo-soprano Patricia Hammond and multi-instrumentalist Matt Redman. Today is no exception with a reinterpreted English baroque favourite, a pop song from the 21st century but what language will it be heard in...2020-09-0321 min
Living Room RequestsMy Favorite Things, Schubert Auf Dem See, I Know Where I'm Goin, Lovely Day Bill WithersWelcome to this special episode of the YouTube concert series, Patricia Hammond and Matt Redman Living Room Requests, now conveniently available in podcast format. Matt finally reaches his 45th instrument of the series, but what will it be? On the way, discover Irish folk songs, one of the most popular songs from musicals and witness a classic song of the soul era reinterpreted. You will always hear something new in this audience-curated series. Be sure to check out the full version as you might see something new as well. That's over on:
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Living Room RequestsO Del Mio Amato Ben, My Girl, Gloomy Sunday, She Came From Alsace Lorraine, Disco InfernoHere are Patricia and Matt in the midst of their Living Room Request live YouTube concert series folded neatly into podcast format! Plenty of stories behind these audience-driven song requests dating from throughout the 20th century. If you are ever the type to confuse Donaudy with Einaudi, never fear, you will learn the difference whilst witnessing the oud, (arabic lute) in a selection of Western pop music as never heard before. To see the full version and light show that you missed on the podcast, head over to:
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Living Room RequestsI'll Fly Away, Love Changes Everything, Zorba The Greek, Mozart Marriage of Figaro, Patience by Take ThatIn this typically light-hearted episode, we catch up with Patricia and Matt in their 28th Living Room Request live YouTube concert compacted into podcast format for when your eyes are otherwise engaged... don't worry, they took out all the mime and visual gags! Stories and songs are shared from the world of opera, cinema, musical theatre and boy bands.
Ever imagined what 'Take That' might sound like with no boys and just a ukulele? Maybe you've always wondered what opera arias are really about or just can't get enough of quintessential keyboard sounds of the 1980...2020-08-2520 min