(AGENPARL) – ven 28 ottobre 2022 Fragments of LUCIA – Joseph Chester
Fragments of LUCIA – Joseph Chester
Friday Nov 04, 2022 at 8pm
Tickets €15
Join us for a wonderful evening of music with multi-award nominated musician Joseph Chester who will perform Fragments of Lucia, a solo guitar recital of pieces from the new suite LUCIA. It will be performed in the beautiful Kenmare Room in the James Joyce Centre.
As part of the Bloomsday celebrations marking the centenary of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Axis Ballymun, Dublin, presented the world premiere of ‘LUCIA’ – a suite for guitar and strings composed Joseph Chester. We are thrilled that Joe can perform for us his solo guitar recital that formed part of this critically acclaimed Bloomsday event.
Lucia Joyce spent 47 years in institutions as a result of mental illness, including long periods in isolation. She died in the notoriously cruel St. Andrew’s asylum, Northampton at the age of 75. And yet, in her youth she had shown enormous potential, as a dancer and illustrator. Over the course of two years, Chester took ten key moments from the life of Lucia Joyce, ten facts of her existence, and composed a piece of music for each, to pay tribute to her, to bear witness to her and, in some fantastical, imaginary way, let her speak. The Paris Times wrote that, “James Joyce may yet be known as his daughter’s father.” Some say she was a muse for Finnegans Wake. Her father described her as, “A fantastic being with a mind as clear and unsparing as the lightning.” However, after undergoing tests, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was committed in 1936.
The concert begins at 8 pm on Friday, November 4 at The James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street, Dublin 1
Beckett (from Lucia) Joeseph Chester (Solo Guitar)
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