Yeats and Shakespeare!
Two giants! Yeats and Shakespeare, and some of the incredible responses by composers to
their timeless words.
New Dublin Voices and conductor Bernie Sherlock are delighted to announce their upcoming concert in Dublin's gorgeous Pepper Canister Church, St Stephen's in Mount Street Upper on Saturday, November 9 at 7:30pm.
The words may be by only two writers, but the range of those writers – and the range of the
music they inspired – is immense. This concert will take you on a whirlwind journey from
breathtaking, classic settings by Vaughan Williams of words from The Tempest, to the Bard at his cheekiest in love songs from the Elizabethan stage, re-imagined by Matthew Harris who poaches liberally from the Mamas and Papas and even the Fine Young Cannibals.
Yeats won't be outdone. He explores so many aspects of human life, from love – unrequited and otherwise – to ageing, flying, war, and the cosmos, all treated with stunning diversity by a most intriguing assortment of living composers. This concert also brings together for the first time all six 2024 Yeats pieces commissioned by New Dublin Voices with a funding award from the Arts Council:
Her Anxiety by David Coonan
White Birds by Laura Hawley
When you are Old by Áine Mallon
The Mother of God by Anselm McDonnell
O Curlew by Jonathan Nangle
Elemental Powers by Roxanna Panufnik
Don't miss this concert! So much that is familiar from the page, now freshly and beautifully
dressed in brilliant musical fabric.
