'Three Words for Light' Anselm McDonnell & Martin Johnson at Seamus Heaney HomePlace, programme includes world premiere of a work by Judith Ring
The Helicon
With Anselm McDonnell and Martin Johnson.
This programme is centred on a new work for cello and electronics, Three Words for Light, written by composer/guitarist Anselm McDonnell in collaboration with Martin Johnson. Inspired by Irish phrases for light in writer and journalist Manchán Magan's book Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape, the piece explores different manifestations of light: will-o'-the-wisps, forked lightning, and the gradual softening of the sky just before sunrise.
These images inform the musical materials present in the work and together constitute a journey from the depths of night, with its eerie, ghostly lights, to the more hopeful cusp of dawn. Join us for a beautiful musical experience, to lift the spirit and travel into the light.
Programme
Judith Ring - Wildwood for cello - (world premiere)
Martin Della Vecchia - A Line, A Circle for guitar - (world premiere)
Anselm McDonnell - Bartholomew, the Scholar for guitar
J.S. Bach - Prelude BWV 998 for guitar
Anselm McDonnell -Three Words for Light for cello and live electronics - (Northern Irish premiere)