Upcoming Events at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center
Thu Sep 19, 7:30 PM - Thu Sep 19, 9:00 PM
129 W 67th St,, New York,, NY 10036
Community: Upper West Side
Description
Alarm Will Sound launches the 10th season of the Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Hall with music a performance featuring "The Hunger" by Donnacha Dennehy and music by Queens-based musician Alexandra Drewchin (aka Eartheater).
Event Details
"The Hunger" is a riveting modern cantata by renowned contemporary composer Donnacha Dennehy rooted in the emotional, political, and socioeconomic devastation of Ireland’s Great Famine (1845- 52) and features soprano Katherine Manley, and sean nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird with Alarm Will Sound.
The libretto draws from rare, first-hand accounts by Asenath Nicholson, an American humanitarian so moved by the waves of immigrants arriving in New York that she traveled to Ireland to bear witness, reporting from the cabins of starving families. The cantata gives a unique perspective on a period of major upheaval during which at least one million people died, and another million emigrated — mainly to the US, Canada, and the UK — forever altering the social fabric of both countries.
The piece "bears hearing and rehearing," said the Washington Post. "It is powerful, and it makes a statement."
Tickets available soon.
Program:
Eartheater, When Fire is Allowed to Finish
- Iridescence of the Char (arr. Aaron Parker)
- Candied Inferno (arr. Steven Snowden)
- Late Blooms in Fertile Ash (arr. Steven Snowden)
- The Slow Burning Chambers of My Heart (arr. Conrad Winslow)
- Frustra Incandescent (arr. Parker)
- Arson of Comfort or Claustrophobia (arr. Snowden)
Donnacha Dennehy, The Hunger
with Iarla O'lionaird and Katherine Manley
The libretto draws from rare, first-hand accounts by Asenath Nicholson, an American humanitarian so moved by the waves of immigrants arriving in New York that she traveled to Ireland to bear witness, reporting from the cabins of starving families. The cantata gives a unique perspective on a period of major upheaval during which at least one million people died, and another million emigrated — mainly to the US, Canada, and the UK — forever altering the social fabric of both countries.
The piece "bears hearing and rehearing," said the Washington Post. "It is powerful, and it makes a statement."
Tickets available soon.
Program:
Eartheater, When Fire is Allowed to Finish
- Iridescence of the Char (arr. Aaron Parker)
- Candied Inferno (arr. Steven Snowden)
- Late Blooms in Fertile Ash (arr. Steven Snowden)
- The Slow Burning Chambers of My Heart (arr. Conrad Winslow)
- Frustra Incandescent (arr. Parker)
- Arson of Comfort or Claustrophobia (arr. Snowden)
Donnacha Dennehy, The Hunger
with Iarla O'lionaird and Katherine Manley
