Saint Patty's Day!
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Sure and begorrah, it’s Saint Patty’s Day! The wee folk’ll be dancin’ i’ the dell, the harps’ll be plucked and the pipes’ll be blown, and lucky shamrocks found...
Turlough O’Carolan, who was one of the most famous harpers of all time, composed our opening tune, “Carolan’s Dream,” which we hear played by harpist Rachel Van Voorhees. We hear Sir Hamilton Harty’s “In Ireland,” “Laments and Dances” by Arnold Black, a John Field piano sonata, as well as a number jigs. So tilt a jug and listen.
The New York Philharmonic will be playing Messiaen’s “Eclairs sur l’au dela...” (Illuminations of the Beyond) at Avery Fischer on March 24–26, but you can hear this extraordinarily rhapsodic work performed this evening over our air waves by the Orchestra of the Bastille under Myung-Whun Chung.
Turlough O’Carolan, who was one of the most famous harpers of all time, composed our opening tune, “Carolan’s Dream,” which we hear played by harpist Rachel Van Voorhees. We hear Sir Hamilton Harty’s “In Ireland,” “Laments and Dances” by Arnold Black, a John Field piano sonata, as well as a number jigs. So tilt a jug and listen.
The New York Philharmonic will be playing Messiaen’s “Eclairs sur l’au dela...” (Illuminations of the Beyond) at Avery Fischer on March 24–26, but you can hear this extraordinarily rhapsodic work performed this evening over our air waves by the Orchestra of the Bastille under Myung-Whun Chung.
