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“A beautiful young woman with a cherub’s voice that floats in an ethereal cloud of its own making” The Sunday Independent
The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra presents AN EVENING WITH
and the Dublin Laptop Orchestra Eimear Quinn’s haunting, ethereal sound won the hearts of millions with her 1996 Eurovision Song Contest winning performance of Brendan Graham’s The Voice. As a best-selling recording artist and performer, her highly distinctive sound and her interpretations inspire. In this her first collaboration with the RTÉ NSO, she will embrace a span of repertoire ranging from the Irish tradition to the contemporary. This unique evening includes the fragile beauty of Thomas Moore’s Silent, O Moyle, Sean O’Riada’s Mná na hÉireann, Brendan Graham’s haunting Cruchán na bPáiste and Eimear’s own setting of In Paradisum. With the innovative Dublin Laptop Orchestra – who “make music with lots of laptops, hands, golf controllers, a wireless router, and anyone
David Brophy conductor
that plays...anything” and who aims “to bring some theatricality and ‘physical presence’ into electronic music performance” with a focus on folk music – she will perform with the Dublin Laptop Orchestra the world premiere of Whisper City by Emma O’Halloran, ‘taking inspiration from the American podcast show www.whispercities.org’ and exploring the ‘secret music’ of Dublin streets. Orchestral works include the power and poetry of Aloys Fleischmann’s Na Ceithre Máistirí (Réamhcheol ) and Séan Ó Riada’s stirring Olynthiac Overture, The Banks of Sulan, Seoladh na nGamhan (The Herding of the Calves) and, with the Dublin Laptop Orchestra, the world premiere of Very Pointy by Dublin Laptop Orchestra founder Alex Dowling.
Friday 27 October, 8pm | National Concert Hall Tickets: €10, €18, €24, €30, €35 (concessions: €9, €16, €22, €27, €32) Booking (no fees): 01 417 0000 • www.nch.ie • www.rte.ie/nso
NATIONAL CONCERT HALL BOX OFFICE TEL: 01 417 0000 • www.nch.ie no booking fees
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