Thursday Lunchtime Recital Series || October 24th

Join us in the East Quad, Concert Hall at 13:10 on Thursday 24th October for a recital presented by Rosanna Moore, lecturer in harp at TU Dublin Conservatoire.

When: Thursday, 24th October

Times: 13:10 – 13:50

Where: TU Dublin Concert Hall, East Quad, Grangegorman D07 XFF2

Rosanna will present an eclectic performance of contemporary works, all of which were either written for her or gifted by friends made on her travels.

The Sky Burst - Angela Elizabeth Slater (Irish Premiere)

Wasatch Crest - Kincaid Rabb (Irish Premiere)

Búho cornudo, de Ecuador - Michael Frazier (World Premiere)

Haiku for Calumet Street - Arthur Keegan (Irish Premiere)

The Fae Nucleus for Delta Harp and Electronics - Sean William Calhoun (World Premiere) Act 1

I. The Neuron Grove

II. Facade

III. A Blight upon the wires

The Sky Burst

The Sky Burst for solo harp explores the imagery of clouds bursting with rain accompanied with moments of thunder, This phenomenon is known as as a cloud burst. The piece explores the different intensities of rain fall, gradually building in intensity before dissipating away again and returning to calm as the end of the piece.

Wasatch Crest

About 30 miles east of Salt Lake City , the Wasatch Crest mountain biking trail traverses some of the most rewarding and challenging vistas of any trail in Utah. As you listen to Wasatch Crest, you can hear the rise and fall of the trail, from careening through tight, treelined paths to happening upon the stunning views of the American Rocky Mountains. Utilizing the most extensive use of harmonics of any harp work in the literature, Wasatch Crest was composed for and in direct consultation with new music harpist Danielle Kuntz.

búho cornudo, de Ecuador

I find great horned owls to be remarkable, captivating birds, and I was keen on composing a piece which captures my personal enjoyment of them. As highly adaptable masters of stealth, great horned owls are widespread throughout many habitats in the Americas. And as a way to meaningfully connect the visual narrative behind this piece, I chose to represent the great horned owls which call Ecuador their home (and thus reflecting the country which is part of my own ethnicity and familial heritage). Through the use of florid, expressive passages in the harp contrasted by dense, harmonic moments of serenity , búho cornudo, de Ecuador (great horned owl, from Ecuador) paints the narrative of a great horned owl in a stealthy, nighttime flight back to her nest as the sun slowly peeks over the horizon. búho cornudo, de Ecuador is written for my long-time friend and harpist, Rosanna Moore.

Haiku for Calumet Street

This piece was written as a gift to Nat & Shari who were the kindest and most generous hosts when I was undertaking a residency at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY. Before I left a friend gave me a book of Basho Haiku for the journey and this piece 'sets' a text from that book:

Surrounded by a thick foliage of cedars

Your house stands

Pregnant with autumn

- Basho

Having stayed with them in upstate New York from early September to late December I had watched the magnificent plane tree outside their home turn green to gold/red and lose its leaves. In addition, the haiku was written by Basho as a gift to kind hosts and so it felt like the perfect text to set. I am extremely grateful to Rosanna Moore who commissioned the work and helped develop the material.

Fae Nucleus

The Fae Nucleus was composed for Rosanna Moore and Amy Nam, and was supported by a grant from the American Harp Society . The overall concept is combining futuristic technology with the surreal flora and fungi of nature overtaken with fae influence. I drew particular inspiration from Chime’s album Aetherborne and from the Kwangya aesthetics of the group æspa. There is only a vague narrative, but to set the atmosphere for each movement, here are fragments from an imaginary text in the world of The Fae Nucleus:

The Neuron Grove

“The path traversed verdant profusions of cords...”

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...sparking among them like impulses through axons...

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...a vast system, awakened by our entrance.

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Facade

“In the clearing, shimmering fragments danced gracefully...

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...crashing and rending, coming out of alignment...

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...welcoming glow resumed, now sickly and wavering.

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A Blight upon the Wires

“The veil disintegrated, revealing pervasive corruption ravaging...

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...a glimpse of an oasis yet unmarred...”

“...an iterating collapse of displays and illusions.”

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