Imagining Home: On Revolution

Thursday 31st March, 8pm

Room: Main Auditorium
Prices: €39.50, €29.50, €22.50
Tickets on sale Monday 23rd November, 10am
Priority Booking for Friends opens Thursday 19th November, 10am

Joseph O’Neill, Ahdaf Soueif, Hisham Matar, Adam Zagajewski, Colm Tóibín.

Additions announced today 15th March

Eva Hoffman– reflection on revolutionary change
Colm Tóibín and Donnacha Dennehy (world premiere) The Dark Places performed by Crash Ensemble, Robin Adams (baritone) and Stephen Richardson (bass-baritone)
Elégie en prose (for Robert Emmet) by Berlioz performed by Michael McHale (piano) and Robin Adams (baritone)
Vanbrugh Quartet perform works by Philip Glass and Beethoven

An evening of word and music exploring revolutionary ideals and their impact with an international gathering of writers and commentators from Ireland, Egypt, Libya and Europe. The concert includes the world première of a new commission by Colm Tóibín and acclaimed composer Donnacha Dennehy.

Irish author Joseph O’Neill is best known for his acclaimed novels Netherland and The Dog and his family history, Blood Dark Track. Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif is an influential commentator as well as the acclaimed author of the best-selling The Map of Love. Libyan author Hisham Matar’s debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. Adam Zagajewski first became known as one of the leading poets of the generation of ‘68’ or the Polish New Wave. He is one of Poland’s most famous contemporary poets. In 2010 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Celebrated writer Eva Hoffman will reflect on the various kinds of revolutionary change which Eastern Europe has undergone during her lifetime.

The evening will be interspersed with musical pieces, opening with Berlioz’s Elégie en prose (for Robert Emmet) performed by Robin Adams (baritone) and Michael McHale (piano) and Frederic Rzewski’s Excerpts from A People United Will Never Be Defeated. The Vanbrugh Quartet perform Philip Glass’ String Quartet No. 3 ‘Mishima’ (movements I, V and VI) and Beethoven’s Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No.2 (movement I).

The acclaimed Irish author Colm Tóibín and composer Donnacha Dennehy come together to present a new commission for baritone and bass and the Crash Ensemble, entitled The Dark Places.

Presented by The National Concert Hall
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