WATERSHED by Ailís Ní Ríain

Yonit Kosovske; Julie Comparini; Jessica Brown; Jessica Brown; Ailîs Ní Ríain

WATERSHED by Ailís Ní Ríain

Yonit Kosovske (Performer), Julie Comparini (Performer), Jessica Brown (Performer), Jessica Brown, Ailîs Ní Ríain (Composer)

Irish World Academy of Music & Dance

Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin

Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

Abstract

This performance of WATERSHED took place at Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin as part of their Sundays @ Noon concert series. The programme was titled Lough Derg 1 & 2, which featured both Ailís Ní Ríain's WATERSHED song cycle commissioned in 2020 by Yonit Kosovske, and the HERMIT SONGS song cycle by Samuel Barber, both cycles of which have texts about Lough Derg, one lake in Counties Clare & Tipperary, and the other lake in Donegal. Ní Ríain's song cycle sets music to five poems by Dr Jessica Brown from her book 'And Say'. Brown's texts reveal a profound exploration of the human relationship with land and water, with a special focus on geographical areas in the west of Ireland.

This performance in Dublin featured contralto Julie Comparini and pianist Yonit Kosovske as well as poetry readings by Jessica Brown.

Yonit, Julie, and Jessica have performed the WATERSHED song cycle in multiple concerts throughout Ireland and Germany, each concert curated with another song cycle (Barber, Elgar, Lili Boulanger), alongside different spoken poetry (in English or German), and sometimes with visual art, such as abstract oil paintings of Lough Derg by Simon deBrun and a live water installation by Sara Förster with moving water images projected onto a cathedral ceiling throughout the performance.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Media of output	Online
Publication status	Published - 2022

Keywords

song cycle
art song

Access to Document

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Z9Fz9_G_M&t=1918s

Cite this

@misc{931772365ae84eff872ae2200d0a4ee4,

title = "WATERSHED by Ail{\'i}s N{\'i} R{\'i}ain",

abstract = "This performance of WATERSHED took place at Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin as part of their Sundays @ Noon concert series. The programme was titled Lough Derg 1 \& 2, which featured both Ail{\'i}s N{\'i} R{\'i}ain's WATERSHED song cycle commissioned in 2020 by Yonit Kosovske, and the HERMIT SONGS song cycle by Samuel Barber, both cycles of which have texts about Lough Derg, one lake in Counties Clare \& Tipperary, and the other lake in Donegal. N{\'i} R{\'i}ain's song cycle sets music to five poems by Dr Jessica Brown from her book 'And Say'. Brown's texts reveal a profound exploration of the human relationship with land and water, with a special focus on geographical areas in the west of Ireland. This performance in Dublin featured contralto Julie Comparini and pianist Yonit Kosovske as well as poetry readings by Jessica Brown. Yonit, Julie, and Jessica have performed the WATERSHED song cycle in multiple concerts throughout Ireland and Germany, each concert curated with another song cycle (Barber, Elgar, Lili Boulanger), alongside different spoken poetry (in English or German), and sometimes with visual art, such as abstract oil paintings of Lough Derg by Simon deBrun and a live water installation by Sara F{\"o}rster with moving water images projected onto a cathedral ceiling throughout the performance.",

keywords = "song cycle, art song",

author = "Yonit Kosovske and Julie Comparini and Jessica Brown and Jessica Brown and \{N{\'i} R{\'i}ain\}, Ail{\^i}s",

year = "2022",

language = "English (Ireland)",

}

TY - ADVS

T1 - WATERSHED by Ailís Ní Ríain

AU - Brown, Jessica

A2 - Kosovske, Yonit

A2 - Comparini, Julie

A2 - Brown, Jessica

A2 - Ní Ríain, Ailîs

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - This performance of WATERSHED took place at Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin as part of their Sundays @ Noon concert series. The programme was titled Lough Derg 1 & 2, which featured both Ailís Ní Ríain's WATERSHED song cycle commissioned in 2020 by Yonit Kosovske, and the HERMIT SONGS song cycle by Samuel Barber, both cycles of which have texts about Lough Derg, one lake in Counties Clare & Tipperary, and the other lake in Donegal. Ní Ríain's song cycle sets music to five poems by Dr Jessica Brown from her book 'And Say'. Brown's texts reveal a profound exploration of the human relationship with land and water, with a special focus on geographical areas in the west of Ireland. This performance in Dublin featured contralto Julie Comparini and pianist Yonit Kosovske as well as poetry readings by Jessica Brown. Yonit, Julie, and Jessica have performed the WATERSHED song cycle in multiple concerts throughout Ireland and Germany, each concert curated with another song cycle (Barber, Elgar, Lili Boulanger), alongside different spoken poetry (in English or German), and sometimes with visual art, such as abstract oil paintings of Lough Derg by Simon deBrun and a live water installation by Sara Förster with moving water images projected onto a cathedral ceiling throughout the performance.

AB - This performance of WATERSHED took place at Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin as part of their Sundays @ Noon concert series. The programme was titled Lough Derg 1 & 2, which featured both Ailís Ní Ríain's WATERSHED song cycle commissioned in 2020 by Yonit Kosovske, and the HERMIT SONGS song cycle by Samuel Barber, both cycles of which have texts about Lough Derg, one lake in Counties Clare & Tipperary, and the other lake in Donegal. Ní Ríain's song cycle sets music to five poems by Dr Jessica Brown from her book 'And Say'. Brown's texts reveal a profound exploration of the human relationship with land and water, with a special focus on geographical areas in the west of Ireland. This performance in Dublin featured contralto Julie Comparini and pianist Yonit Kosovske as well as poetry readings by Jessica Brown. Yonit, Julie, and Jessica have performed the WATERSHED song cycle in multiple concerts throughout Ireland and Germany, each concert curated with another song cycle (Barber, Elgar, Lili Boulanger), alongside different spoken poetry (in English or German), and sometimes with visual art, such as abstract oil paintings of Lough Derg by Simon deBrun and a live water installation by Sara Förster with moving water images projected onto a cathedral ceiling throughout the performance.

KW - song cycle

KW - art song

M3 - Performance

ER -

WATERSHED by Ailís Ní Ríain

Abstract

Keywords

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this