The Music Therapy Charity E-cards

Music has made so much difference to many lives during these difficult months, lifting depressed and anxious spirits and helping people to stay connected. We hope you will find this a novel and fun way to stay in touch with family and friends at different times and for various occasions through the months ahead.

Below you will be able to pick your card's cover picture, select a piece of music and choose who to send it to. Cards will be sent by email to your chosen recipients with the title in the subject line of the email: YOUR NAME has sent you an MTC musical e-card. The cards are charged at the following prices:

1 card - £3.00
5 cards - £12.50
10 cards - £23.00
20 cards - £40.00

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR SENDING MUSIC THERAPY CHARITY MUSICAL E-CARDS

Page 1: Choose your cover picture by clicking on one of the 'Select Image' buttons

Click on 'Select Music/Reading' at bottom right of the page.
Page 2: Click on 'Reading' or 'Music' to see all the music/reading available. Choose one by clicking on' Select Music' (or Reading). You can listen to a brief clip of each music/reading by pressing ˃. Please note: you can listen to the full piece of music when you Preview the card (see point 4 below).

Click on ‘Select Recipients’ at bottom right of the page.
Page 3: Put in number of cards you are ordering, names and email addresses of recipients and your message inside each card.

Click on 'Preview and Pay' at bottom right of the page.
Page 4: Put in your name and email address at the top of the page (this is only used for the processing of cards)

You can preview your first card by clicking on the blue button 'Preview' halfway down the page on the left. (Please note, you can only preview the first of a batch of cards.) You can Open/Close the preview card, then click 'Close Preview' at the top right of the page.
This takes you back to Page 4, where you can pay for your cards and add a donation with Gift Aid if you wish.
You will receive an email in receipt of the cards.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SUPPORTING THE MUSIC THERAPY CHARITY IN THIS WAY

Please pick a default card and music/reading here, and you will be able to change these for each recipient on the Summary page.

Step 1 - Choose your cover picture

Christmas Cards

Snowman
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Music Tree
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Music Tree (B&W)
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Valentines/Easter Cards

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Non-Seasonal Cards

Difficult Times
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Aldous Huxley
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Christopher Clarke

Christopher Clarke trained at Bath Academy of Art at Corsham Court. He then embarked on a long teaching career. He taught at Westminster School for thirty eight years. Now retired he is a student at Morley College,and continues there as a printmaker, being inspired by his garden and places in Sussex, as well as still life objects which he collects from junk shops. He is very happy for some of his prints to be used by the Music Therapy Charity e-card project. He is a member of the fund raising committee.

Woods and Hedges
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Beached Boat
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Collage of Flowers
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Musical Instruments
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Barney Peddie

Barney Peddie, grandson of Peter Andry who was one of the Charity founders, is studying music at Cardiff University having gained a distinction in the Arts Foundation course at Arts University Bournemouth. He continues to paint, drawing much of his inspiration from the Cornwall countryside and coasts where he spent much time when growing up. He exhibited at the Art for Youth exhibition at the Mall Galleries in 2021.

He is pleased to be able to allow his paintings to be used on the Music Therapy e-cards to support the work of this most worthwhile charity.

barneypeddieart.com

Red Stripe
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Dune Walk
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Pebbles
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Large sky and landscape
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Step 2 - Select your music or reading

You can listen to an excerpt of each piece of music here

You will be able to listen to the full piece of music/reading when you Preview the card, prior to paying.

Christmas readings/music
Readings
Music

William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) – Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18), read by Dame PENELOPE KEITH

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William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) – Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets which were collected and published posthumously in 1609, and no.18, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? is one of the best loved. Like many of Shakespeare's sonnets, the poem wrestles with the nature of beauty and with the capacity of poetry to represent that beauty. The speaker of the poem insists that the beauty of his beloved (usually thought to be a young man) will never fade like beauty found in nature because he has immortalized him in text – the lover will live on in the speaker's poem. Sonnet 18 is so famous partly because it addresses a very human fear, that someday we will die and are likely be forgotten.

Special thanks to Penelope Keith for recording this reading for us.

Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) – The Owl and the Pussycat, read by Dame PENELOPE KEITH

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Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) – The Owl and the Pussycat

Edward Lear was an artist, musician, author and poet, whose best-known rhyme, The Owl and the Pussycat, was published 150 years ago. It appeared in his 1871 anthology, Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets, and was written for three-year-old Janet Symonds, the daughter of a friend. Since it is, and was intended to be, nonsense, it is difficult to analyse, except to say that the poem describes the love story between an owl and a cat and their adventures before and after the wedding. One of Lear's most famous verbal inventions, the phrase "runcible spoon," occurs in the closing lines of The Owl and the Pussycat and has made its way into many English dictionaries, defined as a cross between a spoon and a fork, or a spork!

Special thanks to Penelope Keith for recording this reading for us.

Sasha Moorsom (1931 – 1993) - Jewels in My Hand, read by SIMON CALLOW

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Sasha Moorsom (1931 – 1993) - Jewels in My Hand

Sasha Moorsom was born in England and grew up in South Africa. She was a poet, novelist, ceramic sculptor and the translator of Perrault's fairy tales. In 1960 she married Michael Young (from 1978, Lord Young of Dartington) with whom she collaborated on many projects, including establishing the International Extension College in Mauritius and Africa; editing course books for the Open College of the Arts; and helping with the launch of Health Line. She worked in radio at the BBC, producing documentaries, features and drama, was editor of the magazine "Where?" and a regular contributor to The Listener. Her publications include "A Lavender Trip" (1976), "In the Shadow of the Paradise Tree" (1983), and "Your Head in Mine" (1994), a posthumous collection of poems with Michael Young edited by her daughter Sophie Young. This haunting poem, Jewels in my hand, appears in a Poem a Day book.

Special thanks to Simon Callow for recording this reading for us.

John Keats (1795-1821) – To Hope, read by SIMON CALLOW

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John Keats (1795-1821) – To Hope

The romantic poet, John Keats, was born in London in 1795 and died from tuberculosis in Rome in 1821. In his tragically short life, he wrote some of the best-loved poetry in the English language. To Hope, one of Keats's early poems, was written in February 1815 when he was just nineteen years old. It has been regarded as a trial run for the six better known Odes that he wrote in 1819, including to Autumn, to a Nightingale and on a Grecian Urn. In To Hope, whenever despondency, disappointment, and despair threaten to overcome the poet, he calls upon Hope – personified here with a capital letter – to chase them away, like an angel chasing off demons. He likens this to morning 'frightening' away the night: bright hope sees off dark despair.

Special thanks to Simon Callow for recording this reading for us.

Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) – Le Cygne (The Swan) - played by JACQUELINE DU PRÉ and accompanied on the harp by OSIAN ELLIS.

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The Music Therapy Charity E-cards

Step 1 - Choose your cover picture

Step 2 - Select your music or reading

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