Lunchtime Recitals With Sarnia Chopin Nesbit Piano and Chat Free Podcasts Online.
hello gorgeous tale tellers welcome to the lunchtime recitals now these are pre-recorded today's recitals um but i'm sure you won't mind they're rather super um i've got a chopin pursues and do you know what i love about chopin i like that his his left and right hand on piano are so incredibly entwined in one another that they continue they're a continuum i'm used to playing a lot of bark especially on my cello um and what bach does is he he's quite bassy anyway um or or you know he uses you know when the voices in bach are you could pull them out the snbt voices you could pull each one out individually and you could actually uh play them separately and and they make sense usually it's quite interesting with bar that's what i feel anyway that's how i see or hear him that's how i feel him but it may be because i play so much cello um but the chopin um and likewise mendelssohn i've done a lovely uh mendelssohn for you as well i'll pop that up tomorrow the this um continuum from the from the left to the right where one is almost that's the left and right hands by the way there's almost um dependent on one another very dependent um and i kind of like that it kind of makes it sort of easier to learn i always think so i don't think this uh chopin piece was too difficult to perform now the other one i've got for you today is uh but it's really i did it for the children for halloween but i think it might be too scary for them it's called kevin at cavern echoes it's by nesbit it's quite a famous piece lots of musicians are doing um their version of this but i've made a slightly scary version that that's why i'm putting it here really so that i think before you play it to your children you need to check that they you know they feel warm and safe and they're not um i mean you know you've got to be careful you don't want to frighten them too much and it is quite scary the way i've recorded it um so yes parental guidance i suppose is is order of the day now as for um your own musicianship if you're here because you're part of the school um the telltale club music school um plays you know we do a lot of podcasts here for tuition but i would say these podcasts uh these lunchtime recitals are as much for pleasure as for learning of course we learn by listening we know this this is the mantra of the tale teller listen and learn we know that but you know you don't have to listen to these as um tutor or student works you can listen to these as individual performances in their own right and i i think they're splendid and that's why i've chosen it for you so do pop back tomorrow and um we'll do some more and um yeah i'm do drop me a request actually i am more than happy to uh to perform requests in fact i quite like requests um you know you're not necessarily going to get what you want from a request because don't forget i'm an experimental musician as well and and whilst these um lunchtime recitals are reasonably traditional a lot of my other music is you know not um you're sort of uh traveling to the future really when i you know i use the orchestra the robots orchestra and things so it can be it can feel quite different anyway let's kick off and uh i'll be back i'll be back later with the kids club we're doing a kids club today as well at five and so that'll be fun we're going to play some um some things from the uh the archives from the robot so i think tonight we've got something from vapour punk but i'm not 100 sure so i guess i'd best not promise so welcome to everybody who's joined today i know we've um we're absolutely inundated now with new listeners which is just superb thank you so much for your support you know as a musician one just is so pleased when one knows that one's music is being downloaded and uh it's a tough old world out there it's an awful lot of music available thank goodness you know in many ways it's a great thing um but in other...

Lunchtime Recitals With Sarnia Chopin Nesbit Piano and Chat Free Podcasts Online.
hello gorgeous tale tellers welcome to the lunchtime recitals now these are pre-recorded today's recitals um but i'm sure you won't mind they're rather super um i've got a chopin pursues and do you know what i love about chopin i like that his his left and right hand on piano are so incredibly entwined in one another that they continue they're a continuum i'm used to playing a lot of bark especially on my cello um and what bach does is he he's quite bassy anyway um or or you know he uses you know when the voices in bach are you could pull them out the snbt voices you could pull each one out individually and you could actually uh play them separately and and they make sense usually it's quite interesting with bar that's what i feel anyway that's how i see or hear him that's how i feel him but it may be because i play so much cello um but the chopin um and likewise mendelssohn i've done a lovely uh mendelssohn for you as well i'll pop that up tomorrow the this um continuum from the from the left to the right where one is almost that's the left and right hands by the way there's almost um dependent on one another very dependent um and i kind of like that it kind of makes it sort of easier to learn i always think so i don't think this uh chopin piece was too difficult to perform now the other one i've got for you today is uh but it's really i did it for the children for halloween but i think it might be too scary for them it's called kevin at cavern echoes it's by nesbit it's quite a famous piece lots of musicians are doing um their version of this but i've made a slightly scary version that that's why i'm putting it here really so that i think before you play it to your children you need to check that they you know they feel warm and safe and they're not um i mean you know you've got to be careful you don't want to frighten them too much and it is quite scary the way i've recorded it um so yes parental guidance i suppose is is order of the day now as for um your own musicianship if you're here because you're part of the school um the telltale club music school um plays you know we do a lot of podcasts here for tuition but i would say these podcasts uh these lunchtime recitals are as much for pleasure as for learning of course we learn by listening we know this this is the mantra of the tale teller listen and learn we know that but you know you don't have to listen to these as um tutor or student works you can listen to these as individual performances in their own right and i i think they're splendid and that's why i've chosen it for you so do pop back tomorrow and um we'll do some more and um yeah i'm do drop me a request actually i am more than happy to uh to perform requests in fact i quite like requests um you know you're not necessarily going to get what you want from a request because don't forget i'm an experimental musician as well and and whilst these um lunchtime recitals are reasonably traditional a lot of my other music is you know not um you're sort of uh traveling to the future really when i you know i use the orchestra the robots orchestra and things so it can be it can feel quite different anyway let's kick off and uh i'll be back i'll be back later with the kids club we're doing a kids club today as well at five and so that'll be fun we're going to play some um some things from the uh the archives from the robot so i think tonight we've got something from vapour punk but i'm not 100 sure so i guess i'd best not promise so welcome to everybody who's joined today i know we've um we're absolutely inundated now with new listeners which is just superb thank you so much for your support you know as a musician one just is so pleased when one knows that one's music is being downloaded and uh it's a tough old world out there it's an awful lot of music available thank goodness you know in many ways it's a great thing um but in other...

Handel The Boy Who Practiced in the Attic Stories of Great Composers for Children.
section 6 of stories of great composers for children this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org

handle the story of a little boy who practiced in an attic by thomas tapper

when we read about the great composers we learn that they come from all kinds of families bach's parents were poor mendelssohn's were rich schubert's father was a schoolmaster mozart's father was a violinist the story which you are to read in this book and then write out in your own words is about a boy whose parents were neither well to do nor well known his name is george frederick handel in germany where handel was born his name was georg friedrich hendel but the great composer spent so much of his life in england that people now use the english form of his name look at this queer old house where the great master was born and here's a photo of an old-fashioned looking german house it's the kind that's in a city and is squished up close to all the houses next to it is very tall and narrow

handel was born in the same year as johann sebastian bach 1685.

the father was a surgeon and barber a queer combination we know that he did not like music and that he was unwilling for his son to study it of the mother we know little but we do know that she loved her little george frederick and helped him as far as she could the father was so determined that his son should not study music that he refused to let him go to school he feared no doubt that the boy would soon learn to read notes but with the mother it was quite different she observed the little boy's love of music in the handle home there was a big roomy attic the ceiling was low and the windows had thick panes the walls and floors were built of heavy timber and silence reigned there here said mother handel my little boy can play the harpsichord to his heart's content and no one will be the wiser you can imagine the surprise when the stern barber surgeon stalked into the attic followed by the family holding high the lantern

after that it may have been agreed that the boy should practice a little not however that he might become a musician no indeed we may imagine father handel exclaiming my son shall be a famous lawyer

one day when little george was seven years old his father set out by coach to visit another son who was in the service of the duke of sax weissenfels the little boy begged his father to let him go on the journey no he replied you are too young to go so far however when the coach set out george frederick set out too on foot to follow and he would not be sent home again

he kept on trudging along as fast as his little feet would go everyone hoped he would get tired and go back but finally the father had to order the coach to stop and take him in thus did he show that determination which helped him all his life

arrived at the castle the boy soon made friends with the chapel musicians they took him to the organ loft where he played for them all were delighted with his talent one day the duke himself heard him play he too was astonished that one so young should show so much skill calling the father into his presence he pointed out how wrong it was to deny the boy the right to study music the world he said should have the good of your son's great ability

at the cathedral in handel's home city hala there was a famous organist named zucko he became the boy's teacher they must have had a busy time together for he had lessons from zachau not only in organ playing but in harmony counterpoint canon and fugue and in oboe violin and harpsichord playing if you will look at this picture of the harpsichord on which handel played you will see that it is unlike the grand piano of our day how does it differ and yet for this simple...

Handel The Boy Who Practiced in the Attic Stories of Great Composers for Children.
section 6 of stories of great composers for children this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org

handle the story of a little boy who practiced in an attic by thomas tapper

when we read about the great composers we learn that they come from all kinds of families bach's parents were poor mendelssohn's were rich schubert's father was a schoolmaster mozart's father was a violinist the story which you are to read in this book and then write out in your own words is about a boy whose parents were neither well to do nor well known his name is george frederick handel in germany where handel was born his name was georg friedrich hendel but the great composer spent so much of his life in england that people now use the english form of his name look at this queer old house where the great master was born and here's a photo of an old-fashioned looking german house it's the kind that's in a city and is squished up close to all the houses next to it is very tall and narrow

handel was born in the same year as johann sebastian bach 1685.

the father was a surgeon and barber a queer combination we know that he did not like music and that he was unwilling for his son to study it of the mother we know little but we do know that she loved her little george frederick and helped him as far as she could the father was so determined that his son should not study music that he refused to let him go to school he feared no doubt that the boy would soon learn to read notes but with the mother it was quite different she observed the little boy's love of music in the handle home there was a big roomy attic the ceiling was low and the windows had thick panes the walls and floors were built of heavy timber and silence reigned there here said mother handel my little boy can play the harpsichord to his heart's content and no one will be the wiser you can imagine the surprise when the stern barber surgeon stalked into the attic followed by the family holding high the lantern

after that it may have been agreed that the boy should practice a little not however that he might become a musician no indeed we may imagine father handel exclaiming my son shall be a famous lawyer

one day when little george was seven years old his father set out by coach to visit another son who was in the service of the duke of sax weissenfels the little boy begged his father to let him go on the journey no he replied you are too young to go so far however when the coach set out george frederick set out too on foot to follow and he would not be sent home again

he kept on trudging along as fast as his little feet would go everyone hoped he would get tired and go back but finally the father had to order the coach to stop and take him in thus did he show that determination which helped him all his life

arrived at the castle the boy soon made friends with the chapel musicians they took him to the organ loft where he played for them all were delighted with his talent one day the duke himself heard him play he too was astonished that one so young should show so much skill calling the father into his presence he pointed out how wrong it was to deny the boy the right to study music the world he said should have the good of your son's great ability

at the cathedral in handel's home city hala there was a famous organist named zucko he became the boy's teacher they must have had a busy time together for he had lessons from zachau not only in organ playing but in harmony counterpoint canon and fugue and in oboe violin and harpsichord playing if you will look at this picture of the harpsichord on which handel played you will see that it is unlike the grand piano of our day how does it differ and yet for this simple...

A great class for cellists but also useful to other musicians.

The Bach Prelude, Free Lesson Backing Track by Tale Teller Club Audio Classes with Sarnia.

hi tail tellers welcome welcome to the big white world out there many many many cello students yearn to play the bach suite i think there are about 34 of them all together um i may be wrong but some something like that there's quite a few of them anyway and the first sweet it often referred to this one the first sweet but it's a bad description but the sweeten g is the most famous really for cello probably because it's the easiest believe it or not it is the easiest why is it easy it's easy because we can do so much of it in first position and so it's actually quite useful to be not beginner um cellists but jealous who are perhaps intermediate um you know and they're not working their way too far down towards that bridge um the doorway to mecca of course the gateway um you know it's uh it's a fallacy however that you know when you're really really good you're still going to be really good at first position um or rather when you're really advanced that's not just not the case and i like to keep my first position in trim often it's a bit like a muscle if you if you're not using it you're not going to you you're going to become slack okay so i always recommend actually that you use the box sweet the the sweet and g as a warm up and the prelude is just perfect for a warm up and to remind you um about bow movements and how to make a beautiful tone lest we forget and we do forget darlings we forget all the time if we're not you know revisiting things now the other thing about the bach suites the solo cello suites they are designed as solo performances obviously it's kind of obvious isn't it so why would you work with an accompanist why would you work with a backing track right there are two reasons one is tempo when you're playing the bach suite there are notes that you struggle a bit with and shifts and you're going to even subconsciously but you're definitely going to it will show physically reveal that you're struggling with something and you're going to slow down so of course when you're doing a performance when you choose to slow down that's different just slowing down because you you've forgotten where you're going or um you're not quite sure you know how to stay in in tune or whatever whatever your reason so playing with a metronome or a backing track just keeps you nice and steady and it really reveals to you where your problem shifts and pauses lie okay you you tend not to notice or you could record yourself of course that's another really good way of doing it um so using the backing track is a really useful tool for that you keep going you've got no choice you can't stop now you can't you know stop and think about oh how do i get to that second position g you know it can't happen um and and then the other thing of course is keeping you in tune that elusive elusive concept of intonation the curse for all string players is to be perfect um we don't need to be perfect but we need to sound good and the backing track herein really really does help you with that so i've got you a nice five minute backing track it's nice and slow um you should be able to speed up this uh broadcast i think if you want it a bit faster or look you know get in touch with me i'll send it to you or something you know it's not a problem i can't put up the backing track without me talking because it goes against community standards unfortunately and you know podcasting is all about the chat and you know let's face it if i'm not chatting am i teaching probably not and these broadcasts are teaching broadcasts so you know listen to my waffle because i'm a wise old lady and i what i say is right okay so please enjoy um in a in a minute i'm putting up um a recital of classical and jazz cello from the club um so and there'll be a bit of chat too because just because because and um...

A great class for cellists but also useful to other musicians.

The Bach Prelude, Free Lesson Backing Track by Tale Teller Club Audio Classes with Sarnia.

hi tail tellers welcome welcome to the big white world out there many many many cello students yearn to play the bach suite i think there are about 34 of them all together um i may be wrong but some something like that there's quite a few of them anyway and the first sweet it often referred to this one the first sweet but it's a bad description but the sweeten g is the most famous really for cello probably because it's the easiest believe it or not it is the easiest why is it easy it's easy because we can do so much of it in first position and so it's actually quite useful to be not beginner um cellists but jealous who are perhaps intermediate um you know and they're not working their way too far down towards that bridge um the doorway to mecca of course the gateway um you know it's uh it's a fallacy however that you know when you're really really good you're still going to be really good at first position um or rather when you're really advanced that's not just not the case and i like to keep my first position in trim often it's a bit like a muscle if you if you're not using it you're not going to you you're going to become slack okay so i always recommend actually that you use the box sweet the the sweet and g as a warm up and the prelude is just perfect for a warm up and to remind you um about bow movements and how to make a beautiful tone lest we forget and we do forget darlings we forget all the time if we're not you know revisiting things now the other thing about the bach suites the solo cello suites they are designed as solo performances obviously it's kind of obvious isn't it so why would you work with an accompanist why would you work with a backing track right there are two reasons one is tempo when you're playing the bach suite there are notes that you struggle a bit with and shifts and you're going to even subconsciously but you're definitely going to it will show physically reveal that you're struggling with something and you're going to slow down so of course when you're doing a performance when you choose to slow down that's different just slowing down because you you've forgotten where you're going or um you're not quite sure you know how to stay in in tune or whatever whatever your reason so playing with a metronome or a backing track just keeps you nice and steady and it really reveals to you where your problem shifts and pauses lie okay you you tend not to notice or you could record yourself of course that's another really good way of doing it um so using the backing track is a really useful tool for that you keep going you've got no choice you can't stop now you can't you know stop and think about oh how do i get to that second position g you know it can't happen um and and then the other thing of course is keeping you in tune that elusive elusive concept of intonation the curse for all string players is to be perfect um we don't need to be perfect but we need to sound good and the backing track herein really really does help you with that so i've got you a nice five minute backing track it's nice and slow um you should be able to speed up this uh broadcast i think if you want it a bit faster or look you know get in touch with me i'll send it to you or something you know it's not a problem i can't put up the backing track without me talking because it goes against community standards unfortunately and you know podcasting is all about the chat and you know let's face it if i'm not chatting am i teaching probably not and these broadcasts are teaching broadcasts so you know listen to my waffle because i'm a wise old lady and i what i say is right okay so please enjoy um in a in a minute i'm putting up um a recital of classical and jazz cello from the club um so and there'll be a bit of chat too because just because because and um...

The Winter's Tale The Children's Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit Free Audiobook Kids Club.
chapter 12 of the children's shakespeare this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org the children's shakespeare by edith nesbit chapter 12 the winter's tale leontes was the king of sicily and his dearest friend was polythenes king of bohemia they had been brought up together and only separated when they reached man's estate and each had to go and rule over his kingdom after many years when each was married and had a son polixenes came to stay with leontes in sicily leontes was a violent tempered man and rather silly and he took it into his stupid head that his wife hermoine liked poloxines better than she did him her own husband when once he had got this into his head nothing could put it out and he ordered one of his lords camillo to put a poison in poloxanes wine camillo tried to dissuade him from this wicked action but finding he was not to be moved pretended to consent he then told poloxanes what was proposed against him and they fled from the court of sicily that night and returned to bohemia where camillo lived on as polixenes's friend and counselor leontes threw the queen into prison and her son the heir to the throne died of sorrow to see his mother so unjustly and cruelly treated while the queen was in prison she had a little baby and a friend of hers named paulina had the baby dressed in its best and took it to show the king thinking that the sight of his helpless little daughter would soften his heart towards his dear queen who had never done him any wrong and who loved him a great deal more than he deserved but the king would not look at the baby and ordered paulina's husband to take it away in a ship and leave it in the most deserted and dreadful place he could find which paulina's husband very much against his will was obliged to do then the poor queen was brought up to be tried for treason in preferring polexinase to her king but really she had never thought of anyone except leontes her husband leontes had sent some messengers to ask the god apollo whether he was not right in his cruel thoughts of the queen but he had not patience to wait till they came back and so it happened that they arrived in the middle of the trial the oracle said hermoine is innocent halluxinase blameless camillo a true subject leontes a jealous tyrant and the king shall live without an heir if that which is lost be not found then a man came and told them that the little prince was dead the poor queen hearing this fell down in a fit and then the king saw how wicked and wrong he had been he ordered paulina and the ladies who were with the queen to take her away and try to restore her but paulina came back in a few moments and told the king that hermoine was dead now leontes eyes were at last opened to his folly his queen was dead and the little daughter who might have been a comfort to him he had sent away to be the prey of wolves and kites life had nothing left for him now he gave himself up to his grief and passed many sad years in prayer and remorse the baby princess was left on the sea coast of bohemia the very kingdom where polycenaes reigned paulina's husband never went home to tell leontes where he had left the baby for as he was going back to the ship he met a bear and was torn to pieces so there was an end of him but the poor deserted little baby was found by a shepherd she was richly dressed and had with her some jewels and a paper was pinned to her cloak saying that she came of noble parents the shepherd being a kind-hearted man took home the little baby to his wife and they brought it up as their own child she had no more teaching than a shepherd's child generally has but she inherited from her royal mother many graces and charms so that she was quite different from the other maidens in the village where she lived one day prince flores al...

The Winter's Tale The Children's Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit Free Audiobook Kids Club.
chapter 12 of the children's shakespeare this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org the children's shakespeare by edith nesbit chapter 12 the winter's tale leontes was the king of sicily and his dearest friend was polythenes king of bohemia they had been brought up together and only separated when they reached man's estate and each had to go and rule over his kingdom after many years when each was married and had a son polixenes came to stay with leontes in sicily leontes was a violent tempered man and rather silly and he took it into his stupid head that his wife hermoine liked poloxines better than she did him her own husband when once he had got this into his head nothing could put it out and he ordered one of his lords camillo to put a poison in poloxanes wine camillo tried to dissuade him from this wicked action but finding he was not to be moved pretended to consent he then told poloxanes what was proposed against him and they fled from the court of sicily that night and returned to bohemia where camillo lived on as polixenes's friend and counselor leontes threw the queen into prison and her son the heir to the throne died of sorrow to see his mother so unjustly and cruelly treated while the queen was in prison she had a little baby and a friend of hers named paulina had the baby dressed in its best and took it to show the king thinking that the sight of his helpless little daughter would soften his heart towards his dear queen who had never done him any wrong and who loved him a great deal more than he deserved but the king would not look at the baby and ordered paulina's husband to take it away in a ship and leave it in the most deserted and dreadful place he could find which paulina's husband very much against his will was obliged to do then the poor queen was brought up to be tried for treason in preferring polexinase to her king but really she had never thought of anyone except leontes her husband leontes had sent some messengers to ask the god apollo whether he was not right in his cruel thoughts of the queen but he had not patience to wait till they came back and so it happened that they arrived in the middle of the trial the oracle said hermoine is innocent halluxinase blameless camillo a true subject leontes a jealous tyrant and the king shall live without an heir if that which is lost be not found then a man came and told them that the little prince was dead the poor queen hearing this fell down in a fit and then the king saw how wicked and wrong he had been he ordered paulina and the ladies who were with the queen to take her away and try to restore her but paulina came back in a few moments and told the king that hermoine was dead now leontes eyes were at last opened to his folly his queen was dead and the little daughter who might have been a comfort to him he had sent away to be the prey of wolves and kites life had nothing left for him now he gave himself up to his grief and passed many sad years in prayer and remorse the baby princess was left on the sea coast of bohemia the very kingdom where polycenaes reigned paulina's husband never went home to tell leontes where he had left the baby for as he was going back to the ship he met a bear and was torn to pieces so there was an end of him but the poor deserted little baby was found by a shepherd she was richly dressed and had with her some jewels and a paper was pinned to her cloak saying that she came of noble parents the shepherd being a kind-hearted man took home the little baby to his wife and they brought it up as their own child she had no more teaching than a shepherd's child generally has but she inherited from her royal mother many graces and charms so that she was quite different from the other maidens in the village where she lived one day prince flores al...

The Merchant of VeniceThe Children's Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit Free Audiobook Kids Club.

chapter 11 of the children's shakespeare this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by miss avarice the children shakespeare by edith nesbit the merchant of venice antonio was a rich and prosperous merchant of venice his ships were on nearly every sea and he traded with portugal with mexico with england and with india although proud of his riches he was very generous with them and delighted to use them in relieving the wants of his friends among whom his relation visanio held the first place now bassanio like many another gay and gallant gentlemen was reckless and extravagant and finding that he had not only come to the end of his fortune but was also unable to pay his creditors he went to antonio for further help to you antonio he said i owe the most in money and in love and i have thought of a plan to pay everything i owe if you will but help me say what i can do and it shall be done answered his friend then said bassanio and belmont is a lady richly left and from all corners of the globe renowned suitors come to woo her not only because she is rich but because she is beautiful and good as well she looked on me with such favor when last we met that i feel sure that i should win her away from all rivals for her love had i bought the means to go to belmont where she lives all my fortunes said antonio are at sea and so i have no ready money but luckily my credit is good in venice and i will borrow for you what you need there was living in venice at this time a rich moneylender named [ __ ] antonio despised and disliked this man very much and treated him with the greatest harshness and scorn he would thrust him like a cur over his threshold and would even spit on him [ __ ] submitted to all these indignities with a patient shrug but debennis hardy cherished a desire for revenge on the rich smug merchant for antonio both hurt his pride and injured his business but for him thought [ __ ] i should be richer by half a million ducats on the marketplace and wherever he can he denounces the rate of interest i charge and worse than that he lends out money freely so when vassanio came to him to ask for a loan of 3 000 ducats to antonio for three months shalock hid his hatred and turning to antonio said harshly as you have treated me i would be friends with you and have your love so i will lend you the money and charge you no interest but just for fun you shall sign a bond in which it shall be agreed that if you do not repay me in three months time then i shall have the right to a pound of your flesh to be cut from what part of your body i choose no cried bassanio to his friend you shall run no such risk for me why fear not said antonio my ships will be home a month before the time i will sign the bond thus bassanio was furnished with the means to go to belmont there to woo the lovely porsche the very night he started the moneylender's pretty daughter jessica ran away from her father's house with her lover and she took with her from her father's horde some bags of dew cats and precious stones shylock's grief and anger were terrible to see his love for her changed hate i wish she were dead at my feet and the jewels in her ear he cried his only comfort now was in hearing of the serious losses which had befallen antonio some of whose ships were wrecked let him look to his bond said [ __ ] let him look to his bond meanwhile bassanio had reached belmont and had visited the fair porsche he found as he had told antonio that the rumor of her wealth and beauty had drawn to her suitors from far and near but to all of them porsha had but one reply she would only accept the suitor who would pledge himself to abide by the terms of her father's will these were conditions that frightened away many in ardent war for he who would win porsche's...

The Merchant of VeniceThe Children's Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit Free Audiobook Kids Club.

chapter 11 of the children's shakespeare this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by miss avarice the children shakespeare by edith nesbit the merchant of venice antonio was a rich and prosperous merchant of venice his ships were on nearly every sea and he traded with portugal with mexico with england and with india although proud of his riches he was very generous with them and delighted to use them in relieving the wants of his friends among whom his relation visanio held the first place now bassanio like many another gay and gallant gentlemen was reckless and extravagant and finding that he had not only come to the end of his fortune but was also unable to pay his creditors he went to antonio for further help to you antonio he said i owe the most in money and in love and i have thought of a plan to pay everything i owe if you will but help me say what i can do and it shall be done answered his friend then said bassanio and belmont is a lady richly left and from all corners of the globe renowned suitors come to woo her not only because she is rich but because she is beautiful and good as well she looked on me with such favor when last we met that i feel sure that i should win her away from all rivals for her love had i bought the means to go to belmont where she lives all my fortunes said antonio are at sea and so i have no ready money but luckily my credit is good in venice and i will borrow for you what you need there was living in venice at this time a rich moneylender named [ __ ] antonio despised and disliked this man very much and treated him with the greatest harshness and scorn he would thrust him like a cur over his threshold and would even spit on him [ __ ] submitted to all these indignities with a patient shrug but debennis hardy cherished a desire for revenge on the rich smug merchant for antonio both hurt his pride and injured his business but for him thought [ __ ] i should be richer by half a million ducats on the marketplace and wherever he can he denounces the rate of interest i charge and worse than that he lends out money freely so when vassanio came to him to ask for a loan of 3 000 ducats to antonio for three months shalock hid his hatred and turning to antonio said harshly as you have treated me i would be friends with you and have your love so i will lend you the money and charge you no interest but just for fun you shall sign a bond in which it shall be agreed that if you do not repay me in three months time then i shall have the right to a pound of your flesh to be cut from what part of your body i choose no cried bassanio to his friend you shall run no such risk for me why fear not said antonio my ships will be home a month before the time i will sign the bond thus bassanio was furnished with the means to go to belmont there to woo the lovely porsche the very night he started the moneylender's pretty daughter jessica ran away from her father's house with her lover and she took with her from her father's horde some bags of dew cats and precious stones shylock's grief and anger were terrible to see his love for her changed hate i wish she were dead at my feet and the jewels in her ear he cried his only comfort now was in hearing of the serious losses which had befallen antonio some of whose ships were wrecked let him look to his bond said [ __ ] let him look to his bond meanwhile bassanio had reached belmont and had visited the fair porsche he found as he had told antonio that the rumor of her wealth and beauty had drawn to her suitors from far and near but to all of them porsha had but one reply she would only accept the suitor who would pledge himself to abide by the terms of her father's will these were conditions that frightened away many in ardent war for he who would win porsche's...