SONGS FOR lovers, mothers, and sisters, and poems by James Joyce set to music, will be performed by Ailish Tynan and Christopher Glynn in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, on Tuesday at 8pm.
The concert, entitled A Woman’s Love And Life, will feature Irish soprano Ailish Tynan and British pianist Christopher Glynn. The inspiration is taken from Schumann’s song cycle of the same name – a work that describes the course of a woman’s love for her man from her point of view, from the first moment they meet and through their life together until his death.
The concert will open with Dunhill’s arrangement of Yeats’ ‘The Cloths of Heaven’ before going into the section entitled ‘Lovers, Mothers, Sisters’, featuring classical arrangements of traditional Irish songs including Britten’s arrangement of ‘Down By The Salley Gardens’ and Herbert Hughes’ arrangement of ‘The Gartan Lover’s Lullaby’.
‘Joyce’s Women’ will feature poems by the groundbreaking novelist such as ‘She Weeps Over Rahoon’ and ‘Goldenhair’ (famously and magically covered by Syd Barrett on his debut solo album The Madcap Laughs in 1970 ), and John Cage’s arrangement of ‘The Wonderful Widow Of Eighteen Springs’.
To conclude there will be works by Schumann and arrangements of ‘ Johnny I Hardly Knew You’ and ‘The Roving Dingle Boy’.
Tickets are €20/16/6 from Music For Galway (091 - 705962 ), Opus II, The Cornstore, or www.tht.ie The next Music For Galway concert is with pianist Andreas Haefliger in the Hotel Meyrick on May 4 at 8pm.
