Stuff and Nonsense

For this year's November concerts, the internationally acclaimed and award-winning chamber choir New Dublin Voices and their conductor Bernie Sherlock present Stuff and Nonsense, a celebration of the marriage of nonsense and music:

Friday Nov 19th Monkstown Parish Church, 8pm

Saturday Nov 20th Christ Church Cathedral, 8pm

Composers from the Renaissance to the present-day have been fascinated by nonsense and written wonderful music in response to some of the weirdest texts around.

New Dublin Voices explore the amazing amount of truth and value, art and entertainment, contained within nonsense, silliness and madness.

Highlights include: settings by Italian, Finnish, Hungarian (and English!) composers of verses and limericks by the grandfathers of nonsense, Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. Ridiculous madrigals from the Renaissance. And Benjamin Britten's extraordinary Rejoice in the Lamb, a setting of unhinged but deeply compelling verse written in an insane asylum by the 18th century poet Christopher Smart (with David Adams, organ).

Saturday's concert will also include the launch of NDV's new Christmas CD.

Tickets €15 (€10 conc) available at the door.

Stuff and Nonsense Programme

Britten Rejoice in the Lamb

Petrassi Nonsense

Seiber Three Nonsense Songs

Oltra El Bestiari de Pere Quart: Gripau; Musclo; Bacil

Ligeti The Alphabet (from Nonsense Madrigals)

Rautavaara Ludus verbalis

Mäntyjärvi Pseudo-Yoik

Rissanen Jabberwocky

Banchieri Contrapunto Bestiale

Scandello Ein hennlein weiss

Rutter The Owl & the Pussycat