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