Details
$15 / $5 studentsDate(s)
Feb 22, 2018 – Feb 24, 2018
8:00pm
Contact
Princeton University Ticketing
609-258-9220
Location
Please note this performance is NOT at Irish Arts Center.
Venue:
Princeton University
Wallace Theater, Lewis Arts Complex
185 Nassau Street
Princeton, NJ 08542
Overview
FEATURING
Eighth Blackbird
Nathalie Joachim, flutes; Michael J. Maccaferri, clarinets; Yvonne Lam, violin and viola; Nicholas Photinos, cello; Matthew Duvall, percussion; Lisa Kaplan, piano
Dan Trueman, composer, fiddler
Iarla Ó Lionáird, vocals
Paul Muldoon, text
The 2016 Grammy-winning contemporary music ensemble Eighth Blackbird collaborates with composer and fiddler Dan Trueman, vocalist Iarla Ó Lionáird of the contemporary Irish supergroup The Gloaming, and Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon for a special performance of new work commissioned by Poetry Foundation with Irish Arts Center, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts: Artworks, and the University of Richmond.
A modern retelling of an ancient Irish epic, Olagón depicts the legendary Irish tale Táin Bó Cúailnge as a story of hardship in contemporary, post-recession Ireland while honoring traditional music of Ireland, Norway, and America. Muldoon’s text—written in both English and Irish—is sung in the sean-nós style by Ó Lionáird.
Tickets for Thursday, February 22
Tickets for Friday, February 23
Tickets for Saturday, February 24
“One of the smartest, most dynamic contemporary classical ensembles on the planet.”—Chicago Tribune on Eighth Blackbird
“One of the most dramatic voices in contemporary music.”—The Guardian on Iarla Ó Lionáird
“Trueman is a man out of time, one foot in tomorrow’s software, the other in yesterday’s folk music.”—Electronic Musician on Dan Trueman
“One of the great poets of the past hundred years ... only Yeats before him could write with such measured fury.”—The New York Times Book Review on Paul Muldoon
Running time: 90 minutes
Commissioned by Poetry Foundation with Irish Arts Center, Aaron Copeland Fund for Music, Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts: Artworks, and the University of Richmond.
This production is generously supported by Olagón’s lead commissioner, the Poetry Foundation.
Performance photos by Philamonjaro Studio
Olagón: A Cantata in Doublespeak was released on CD in 2017 and is available on Cedille Records.
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