'Voices Receding': Three Anti-War Art Song Recitals
Contemporary Music Centre
Image: Grande mosquée de Gaza, Great mosque of Gaza. Maison Bonfils (Beirut, Lebanon) 1867-1899. Source: Google Arts and Culture, The Barakat Trust. Rights: Library of Congress.
Curated by David Bremner and Elizabeth Hilliard.
David Bremner is a composer and performer from Dublin. Elizabeth Hilliard is a performer from Dublin. Together they run the music production company Béal, producing new music and multi-disciplinary events. They are both politically-engaged artists and understand their work as part of a social and political context.
For this series of performances they have curated a programme which features works by Palestinian composers, alongside a new anti-war work by CMC composer and activist Raymond Deane: 'Voices, receding: Three songs against war'.
Programme
Amin Nasser - A Letter to Mother (text by Kamal Nasser) (sop pf)
Donia Jarrar - Hijaz Kar Kurd Theme and Variations (pf)
Wisam Gibran - Inventions for Piano nos 2 & 6 (pf)
Raymond Deane - Voices, receding: Three songs against war (sop pf)
Tickets
This programme will be performed three times at 5pm, 6pm and 7pm. Each performance lasts 30 minutes.
There is no admission charge, however advance booking is required through Eventbrite. Please select the ticket which corresponds to your chosen performance time.
The artists invite attendees to consider making a donation to Médecins Sans Frontière. Visit the MSF website here: https://www.msf.ie/home