20: CENTURY MUSIC STOUT Ecce a hy UNE 24-30, 1972 SINCE ee Nip aoclkeacs ST PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL Wa OCP ON eter C rts -Chamber Groups Recitals Lectures Festival Club USIC ASSOCIATION OF IRELANDProgramme SATURDAY, JUNE 24 Invitation Symphony Concert St, Patrick's Cathedral Evening 8 p.m. rene Sandford (soprano) Frank Patterson (ten) William Young (baritone) Gaioness Chait (Choris master: Vitor Leeson) RTE Singer and Choral Society (Chorus master: Hans Waldemar Rosen) [RTE Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Albert Rosen Raymond Waren Symphony No.2 Gerard Vitory Jonathan Swift ‘Symphony No.2 Raymond Wier Dr Wares second symptny dates fom 1969, He dra attention to an uouua Teta, the dvsion oti resi to ma ole, ikea and th low arn tt {ie out on te vionn deve 1 diene tetween the two pospe Sonetinet tis dope sell sometimes t pve be some tera Speci te recur ome sec The py ie oreo a oe Catan sme ature of tnidiona omptent orn ‘that efit movement, escherzo anda lege last ‘ovement oa be eaihed thes “mena eg ‘punted byte ator vat Morne Jowathan Swift — 'x'Symphonis Portit Gerad Vitory (Gerard Victory says that be has always been fascinated the gute xray and nga pena of Jonathan Sei In tus symphomie porta whi ‘was competed in 1971, he tes tolerate the quence of Swift's He. The work was specially 10. ttn for the Dubin 20th Century Music Festival and ‘Fein rst performed i te Cathedral with which Swift wasso dely sociated and whee his moral ‘ein loa at ‘The mii falls info two movements. The opening ‘moro on bas chet and hors ss pte ape ‘hur of Swifts pemonalityandecoetin a thm {he words o his own gr epitaph "Pe the ey pork waor whe qused a Yet play ‘The Words Upon the Windowpane The pasionate ‘ection whic ole etenber hs agus ator eas an the shadow of sat which alwayshaunted Re extn dei Ss te Youngman whee hi bina wt became ‘Uvaregue dare iastrates the Hiss ots woul wil rs ew cpa ee ‘The development of is aret git of tory depicted Ine sage scherzendo nich tes to cies and fives way toa rump march aun x parody SS'Swits acclarmedby London sosety 2 he peas ed th Tory mniy of Queen Anse ad te amar of pelts and princes. ‘The second movement eit the dsp nd gloom ‘hich flowed sats poltcaldovnfalt Now Dean ‘SfSt Pats fe becomes aware of th plight of te ouniy of hs rh and wits rian ate ace Epory and soap fe meee ft Fh two peat loves Stel” and Vanesa” portrayed ‘yao okn and clo we ‘Swltlon an gay tr ‘union infrodues an epioe ustatng the fina reacdown of gest nellect snd hs ath is ‘outed in Cele lament by the sh people who Aad taken him to thet hearts The exe fplogue suns up Swifts ie nd wock an weflets srvival of is spint in suconiv generations of [ish men end women to whom his wilting gave frspaton snd sure ‘Mors ot Vita — Brian Boydell ‘AcCantata to poems by Wlam Duntrand Anonymous Ihe ‘The ong ofthis Cantata dates buck ten yea sg, When send showed me that Bie poo rom TSt4€. manscit soni the aro death, The atm eran Fir mort contrat me flows ech vere wih early Engh At hat ine, twas ecomang inrepinly intrested ia what wes hen to ‘mo thestange new mond of ogrd maid {Setacs with median mais {ound new ina ths rc, ich wad pt to ‘contemporay sto, athe sae tie nd demer a he pcbie of ital feed ered the kel veil oe the ai theft scting in 1953 The in T8S8 led me to a rcspect of performance SEA cea erg ads new wenn ih sta fi performed bythe, ‘Cara Choral Sooty with Rchard Cooper noe soloist. Shortly afterwards, the work was performed bythe Nedelands Kamamerkoor atthe Utrecht Festival, wth Felix de Nobel conducting. was ‘hen that realised that this setting would be greatly alae by th cnta of tn se renin, nd mocked over period of tivo years on two poems ty Willan Dunbar one a natty poem, the other Borying in th Resurrection Bath wath Latin fetains, matching Timor mors. This ade the ial {rly Birth, Death and Resurrection T found the ove of Duar nua mot nie agin by reading such words these (om the {hind poem of the tog): ‘Dencinis the dead amen Laer ‘The crealspent he ntl sane ‘he sl en oe, nth htt ht (Ohi in's wa es nme or mason “Thing opps essen ‘here Ld wal oct ha ee ‘This sixteenth century Scottish dalet presents serious ‘omplcetios for prvi performance witha shot. oT sought the ssstance of Dr. Wilam Pyle of TCD. ‘rho helped me to produc compromise txt, which ‘ould be ntligbe without sacicing too much of the vivid lnguoge ofthe orignal. “The idea ofthe organ accompaniment i the ovginal version of Zimor morts was merely a temporary ‘expedient cated by the conditions ofthe fis performance. The complete cantata is now scored ‘ith an accompaniment of woodwind, bros and pucustion~ mollng the more overly emotional {one ofthe stings. My idea doing this to reach back tothe more objective emotlonal climate ofthe plod ofthe poems ‘part from te choi, which takes parti al thee ‘movements, the ft ection (Rorae coe desaper) features both Soprano and Bast oli; the second (Timor mortisconturbat reves al te aretve ‘English words tothe Tenor sols hile the choir aap repeaing te in words of he ral, The String wocds of the st ectlon (Stent Dominus de sepuehro] ae shared between the Choi andthe Bis folost, A eycle ak between the fs and ast ‘movements Knit Ue whole canta together: for Dildo sortain melodie sacs, vo sma ples oft sug cline pnt ct eachother Sort tet srt So Ta ne Eve be znow ‘wri dtd to my ton Fla Noten ‘esognlton of the touble be took over ine formance of Timor Mortis. $44 tC etc 8c tc toto tote SUNDAY, JUNE 25 ‘Young Composers Concert Examination Hall, Trinity College Afternoon 3 p.m. Sally An Bryon ‘Anne We ‘Frank Corcore Prank Corcoran John Gibson ‘Sue for Paoforie hve Joyce Sones Kleine ‘colomusie ‘Sonata for Trombone and Violn Fano Quartet Interval — 15 rates ‘Raymond Deane “Tdos”for omen Derek Ball ‘Sore for ello and soprano Brien Beckett Pano Sonate Suite for Panoforte Meo; Vivace: Sly Ann Bryan ‘i (Detar spared Piano) Wotan. Kiswiten 1972, this sone of my latest works. Ser Me nth novezow oi B:ESA:D;G;C. The Ist and sth the te row a i nd the 2nd Movement with the note row backward Composers Note Composers Note “ee Joyce ‘nn Wiis Bisich halos Merz ¢ ‘ie Wis, Paro ‘These eitings re of thee of Toys harder Muse ‘Rema wih es pps in BGT Thong a ‘hed on theft, seCond and ninth poems respectively. The words, wih tet many scl allusions, eadily suet s moscal eng and ve ‘rem sdapied by several composer for vee and ccompainen¢ The oie par characteried by Aide ange and short phrases and the plano under fies the ext in many stances Composers Note Nice ‘Celommik Frank Cocoa ing Dray Bye ct She Re Calor ox Inte tion of the tnderth an acs sae, eplting the {a geneous fh si om i ‘epode woe pacino testy ae Lane weno im Moats a in) we cohen th cle nerd tt ees em rene Sonata fr Trombone ‘nd Violin (Sean Gi, Trombone ‘Artur Melson Vol) ‘The threemovement Sonata for Trombone end Violin rank Corcoran ‘THIS PAGE SPONSORED BY LEVER BROS (IRELAND) LTD.