(AGENPARL) – gio 30 maggio 2024 Immerse yourself in the Musical Journey of Joyce´s work by exploring some of the Bloomsday Festivals Musical Highlights
** A Musical Bloomsday
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** Bloomsday Festival Music Highlights
June 16th 2024
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“Sea, wind, leaves, thunder, waters, cows lowing, the cattlemarket, cocks, hens don’t crow, snakes hissss. There’s music everywhere.”
Ulysses, James Joyce
Experience the wonders of the Bloomsday Festival with this
year´s musical highlights!
Joyce’s Dubliners Interpreted in Song by Hibsen
Tuesday, 11 June at 7:30pm
James Joyce Centre
Join us for a unique musical interpretation of James Joyce’s Dubliners.
Irish folk music ensemble Hibsen pays homage to Joyce with performances from their critically acclaimed album “The Stern Task of Living.” The album is a collection of 15 songs, one for each short story in Dubliners. Through their original music and lyrics, Hibsen brings these stories to life.
Hibsen are a contemporary folk music ensemble formed by Irish artists Jim Murphy and Gráinne Hunt. They released their debut album “The Stern Task of Living” on 26 May 2023. The album was also selected as a featured album on RTE Lyric FM and on BBC Radio Ulster.
“One might almost sense the spirit of Joyce himself strolling through these tracks. Better still, you don’t have to know the stories to savour this as a musical experience in its own right.” Jackie Hayden, Hot Press Magazine
Tickets are €20.
Poems Ago
Thursday, June 13th at 1pm
James Joyce Centre
The James Joyce Centre is proud to present a lunchtime performance by Poems Ago. Poems Ago, the Irish-Dutch musical duo Juliana Hahn and Remco Jacobs, compose and perform music to Irish poetry and play original songs. In this concert, they will perform guitar and violin music set to James Joyce’s Chamber Music (1906) as well as poetry by W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, and contemporary Irish poets. The concert conincides with Yeats’ birthday.
More information about Poems Ago can be found on the website https://www.poemsago.com/?mc_cid=981ce329fd&mc_eid=UNIQID.
Tickets are €12.
James Joyce & Antonio Smareglia, His Composer Friend
Saturday, 15 June at 7pm
James Joyce Centre
Join us at the James Joyce Centre for a special Bloomsday Festival concert event that illustrates the connection between James Joyce, Antonio Smareglia, Trieste, and Pula. The concert features performances of excerpts from operas by Smareglia, the Italian-Croatian composer who was a friend and neighbour of Joyce in Trieste.
Maltese pianist Charlene Farrugia-Božac and Croatian soprano Sofija Cingula will bring the music to life. The event will include presentations by Croatian scholar Dr. Vito Paoleti? (University of Pula) and an introduction will be given by Dr. Juliana Licinic van Walstijn (Queen’s University Belfast). The concert will be followed by a wine reception provided generously by the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Dublin.
Tickets are €15.
Joseph Chester’s Fragments of Lucia
Sunday, 16 June at 4pm and 8pm
Smock Alley Theatre
Fragments of Lucia is a solo guitar performance by multi award-nominated songwriter, composer, and musician Joseph Chester from his highly-acclaimed album LUCIA. The album is a suite of 10 pieces inspired by the life of Lucia Joyce, James Joyce’s daughter.
Lucia Joyce spent 47 years in institutions as a result of mental health struggles, including long periods of isolation. She passed away at the age of 75 in the notoriously cruel St. Andrew’s Asylum, Northampton. Despite her struggles, she had shown enormous potential as a dancer and illustrator in her youth. Over the course of two years, Chester took ten key moments from the life of Lucia Joyce and composed a piece of music for each, to pay tribute to her, to bear witness to her, and in some fantastical, imaginary way, to let her speak.
Two performances at 4pm and 8pm. Performance time is approximately 70 minutes.
Tickets are €17 general, €15 concession.
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Strings in the Earth and Air: The Musical World of James Joyce
Sunday, 16 June at 8pm
James Joyce Centre
Join us in a celebration of Joyce’s fascination with music. With excerpts from his early poetry collection Chamber Music, to the melancholic stories of Dubliners, to the ornate worlds of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, Rourke & Dwyer take us on an odyssey through the musical world of Joyce.
The performance includes excerpts of ‘raw sensuality’ from Nuala O’Connor’s celebrated book Nora: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce; and it features the premiere of a new text by Nicole Rourke exploring the sensual worlds of Nora, Molly, and Joyce.
Following the show, Director of the James Joyce Centre, Darina Gallagher, will host a Q&A with Nicole and Benjamin on the role of music in Joyce’s life and writing, and their creation of the programme. Wine will be served.
Tickets are €20.
** Looking for more?
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Click below to see the full Bloomsday 2024 programme.
Bloomsday Programme (https://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/programme/?mc_cid=981ce329fd&mc_eid=UNIQID)
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The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
The Bloomsday Festival is organised by the James Joyce Centre in partnership with Fáilte Ireland, Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
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