In their hands, Yoko's poems are treated to spindly electro-funk bricolages ("The Sun is Down!"), wistful chamber-jazz reflections ("Memory of Footsteps", "Unun. To") and ragged space-age rockabilly ("Waiting for the D Train").
Kundera's opinions, reflections, memories and desires are well worth listening to.
Set in the imaginary Welsh fishing village of Llareggub over a single day, it merges the dreams, inner reflections, memories and daily talk of some 67 of its inhabitants, living and dead, into a colourful alliterative kaleidoscopic prose poem.
Aside from providing raw entertainment, Marybelle's antics nicely balance Cliff's travel-induced reflections: memories of his marriage, fatherhood, farming, teaching and his younger brother, Teddy, who had Down syndrome and drowned when Cliff was a boy.
"Obviously, the point is it's a reflection on memory," he answered.
His latest piece, Recapture, is an immersive reflection on memory and Alzheimer's.
Only reflection and memory will give us the power to see the potential for new catastrophes in the violence and disorientation of our time.
Then it modulates into a reflection on memory and on Zucker's relationship with her own mother, the storyteller Diane Wolkstein, whose side of the story emerges in e-mails and iChat transcripts that Zucker has included, seemingly unedited.
Ms. Tower explained, with a sob in her voice, that she had written the piece — which veers between anger and delirium, melancholy and reflection — in memory of a nephew who died slowly of a lung ailment.
"We said we wouldn't look back", a poignant reflection on memory, nostalgia and the passing of years, is said to be the queen's favourite song; Miss Drew sang it to her at the Royal Variety Performance in 1955, and bands have played it at royal events ever since.But the show's record-breaking success was the end of her career.
