Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble: Sólás Charity Concert

Hard Rain are delighted to perform alongside Northern Ireland Opera, M’ANAM, The Ulster Consort and The Cross Border Youth Orchestra in this fundraising event for Sólás Special Needs Charity. Based on Belfast’s Ormeau Road, Sólás was established 15 years ago to provide practical supports to children and young people, (2-18yrs) with moderate to severe disabilities and their families. They are raising funds for a new purpose-built community facility.

Hard Rain will perform two beautifully atmospheric pieces both inspired by poetry. Greg Caffrey’s 'These are the Clouds About the Fallen Sun' was written “as an elegy, and reflects a very personal interpretation of the Yeats poem. So, rather than the accepted reading of the poem as a requiem for the demise of traditional values in the face of modernity, I have expressed here a more orthodox sense of loss. Technically the piece reflects my preoccupation, at the time of writing, with the creation of more spacious and ‘beautiful’ sound-worlds... The piece was written in memory of my late brother Marc Caffrey”. Claude Debussy’s impressionist masterpiece Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune was inspired by Mallarmé’s poem and is presented here in a new arrangement for Pierrot Quintet. 

Programme

These are the Clouds about the Fallen Sun (2013) - Greg Caffrey (1963) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano.

Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (1894 arr. 2016) - Claude Debussy (1862-1918) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano.

Tickets

£10-20. Booking at the Waterfront Hall.