New Dublin Voices presents... Yeats

W.B. Yeats is more than a great icon of Ireland.

He is the writer of poems of such deeply embedded humanity that they speak directly to the hearts and minds of people everywhere, and now.

On Saturday, April 13, leading Irish chamber choir New Dublin Voices will celebrate the living freshness of Yeats with performances of music by living composers, each of whom has created beautifully expressive settings of his words.

Supported by Arts Council awards, conductor Bernie Sherlock has commissioned exciting new settings of Yeats from six internationally renowned composers.

Two of these new Yeats pieces will receive their world premieres at this concert: "Elemental Powers" by the British-Polish composer Roxana Panufnik, and "O Curlew"; by Ireland's Jonathan Nangle.

New Dublin Voices will be delighted to welcome both composers to the concert, and, as guest-of-honour, the Polish ambassador to Ireland, His Excellency Arkady Rzegocki.

The programme will also present settings of some of Yeats' most beloved poems: "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven", "The Stolen Child", "The Second Coming", "An Irish Airman Foresees his Death" and "Down by the Salley Gardens" – all by living composers.

And the concert is rounded out with music by William Byrd and the Irish premieres of works by Wolfram Buchenberg, Ambroz Copi, Kestutis Daugirdas, Seán Doherty and Emil Raberg.

7.30pm, Saturday April 13, St Bartholomew's Church, Clyde Road, Dublin

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