2012 Galway Early Music Festival Brochure

GALWAY EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL May 17-20, 2012

Social Harmony When Tradition and High Art Meet

A foot-tapping weekend of simple melody and complex harmony in the liveliest medieval town in Europe!

Info & Booking: www.galwayearlymusic.com

Galway City Council

Galway Early Music would like to thank its sponsors and friends, without whose support the Festival would not happen.

SUPPORTED

BY

Galway City Council

MEDIA SPONSORS

GOLD PATRONS Kimberly LoPrete

Adare Guesthouse

SILVER PATRONS Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop Michael & Claire Cuddy Tom Grealy St Anthony’s & Claddagh Credit Union

FUND IT PROJECT SPONSORS Jacopo Bisagni Lise Carrel Maria Caswell Yannick Kadvany Eleanor Hough Sylvianne Mager

Brenda Malloy Brendan Murray Ionia Ní Chróinín Máirín Nic Dhonnchadh Úna Ní Fhlanagáin Henrike Rau

Jeanne Rittmueller John Rogers Michael Shields Teresa Walsh Jana Walsh Matthew Walsh

and eight anonymous sponsors

WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO The Rector & Vestry of St Nicholas Collegiate Church, with heartfelt thanks to Catherine Moore-Temple

The director and staff of the Galway City Museum, with special thanks to Breandán Ó hEaghra

See our Festival Trailer on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edzFYveePno or scan this QR code:

S ocial Harmony This year’s festival looks at what happens when popular culture and high art meet and mingle: when tunes played at a peasant’s wedding find their way into the music played at a castle feast, when hurdygurdy and bagpipes become the fashion at court and when baroque harp discovers the rhythms of the New World. It also looks at the music of the Gaelic areas of Scotland and Ireland where tradition is high art.

CONCERTS Vocal Harmony Motets, Madrigals and Villancicos Cois Cladaigh Chamber Choir Thursday, May 17, 8 pm St Nicholas Collegiate Church Cois Cladaigh will perform a selection of European religious and secular choral music showing off some of the great motets of that time juxtaposed with the lighter natured madrigal/chanson/villancico type of composition

Cois Cladaigh Chamber Choir Cois Cladaigh celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and Galway Early Music is delighted to have them perform one of their 30th anniversary concerts at the Festival.

Cois Cladaigh is a mixed voice choir based in Galway and was founded in 1982. The name - Cois Cladaigh - is Irish and can be translated as "beside the Claddagh" which is a well-known area in Galway City. The choir specialises in European music from the late 15th and early 16th centuries and also performs a formidable repertoire of contemporary choral music, particularly from Ireland, but also from Scandinavia, Eastern European countries, and North America.

Best Wishes from Galway Early Music!

Cois Cladaigh Chamber Choir Celebrating 30 years in 2012!

CONCERTS 1000 Years of Bagpipe in France François Lazarevitch Friday, May 18, 1 pm Chapel of the Poor Clares, Nuns Island “You must be Breton!” Listeners often jump to that conclusion on hearing a piper in France.

Yet bagpipes are one of the largest families of instruments, with at least fifteen members in the French branch alone, all of them differing in form, sound and playing technique.

The bagpipe in all its diversity is part of France’s musical and cultural heritage.

With its animal shape and its powerful, continuous sound, it has always intrigued and fascinated, and sometimes even inspired fear.

French bagpipes bear such names as boha, musette, cabrette… Basically a folk instrument, at one time it even became fashionable at the French court and in society. François Lazarevitch invites you to discover this beguiling instrument and its mysteries.

The concert includes works by Marcabru (before 1130 - after 1149), Adam de la Halle, Francisque Caroubel (around 1600), CharlesEmmanuel Borjon de Scellery, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (16891755), anonymous and traditional repertoire from Centre-France.

François Lazarevitch Much sought after as a soloist for the expressiveness of his playing on flutes and bagpipes, François Lazarevitch trained with eminent masters of early and traditional music. His encounter with Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaume, a pioneer in the early music revival, was particularly important in his quest for naturalness in the musical phrasing of works of oral tradition.

François Lazarevitch is making a series of recordings entitled 1000 ans de cornemuse en France for the Alpha label, with the support of Mécénat Musical Société Générale. Et la fleur vole, the fifth and most recent volume, was awarded the coveted Diapason d’Or and Choc de Classica.

He also launchedThe 4 Pipers project: four musicians playing French, Irish, Scottish and Northumbrian pipes, who gave their first performance in 2007 at the Nantes Printemps des Arts, with the support of the Fondation Meyer.

CONCERTS Le Berger Poète Suites & sonatas for flute & musette François Lazarevitch & Les Musiciens de St Julien Friday, May 18, 8 pm St Nicholas Collegiate Church In the eighteenth century the French aristocracy conceived an amazing passion for the musette bagpipe and the hurdy-gurdy.

Thus a vast corpus of musical compositions came into being, often ‘popular’ in character, aiming to evoke the shepherds of Arcadia.

Le Berger Poète gives pride of place to French pastoral music of the eighteenth century, with dance suites or descriptive pieces

by Michel Pignolet Montclair, Jean Hotteterre and Nicolas Chédeville. But this programme also includes more intimate pieces, such as the wonderful Suite for transverse flute by Jacques Hotteterre and the famous Rossignol en Amour by François Couperin.

The result is rich and full of nuance both in instrumental colour and in musical character.

Les Musiciens de St Juliens Founded by François Lazarevitch in 2005, the ensemble Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien takes its name from the Confrérie Saint-Julien-desMénétriers, an important musicians’ guild, founded in Paris in the Middle Ages. From the early fourteenth to the late eighteenth century, the guild brought together musicians who were also dancers, who performed music from the oral tradition as well as written compositions, and embodied the sacred union of music and dance.

The same curiosity led Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien to explore littleknown repertoires, such as those of the airs de cour (Et la fleur vole), early Scottish music (For ever Fortune) and brunettes (A L’ombre d’un Ormeau), as well as works from the “great repertoire”, written by composers such as Lully, Charpentier, Bach and Telemann. Natural musical phrasing, instrumental colour and the spirit of the dance are always of vital importance.

CONCERTS Fantasía y Folía Wild Rhythm - Artful Dance - Fantastical Improvisation

120 years of dance-music, tientos & fantasy from Spain, Portugal, Africa & South America

The Harp Consort Andrew Lawrence-King (Spanish Baroque Harp), Steve Player (baroque guitar & dance), Ricardo Padilla (percussion)

Saturday, May 19, 8 pm St Nicholas Collegiate Church For Spain, the 16th century was a period of exploration.

Adventurous sailors, crossing the Atlantic to search for a new route to Cathay, had found an unknown continent, a “new world”. Musicians were no less adventurous, crossing the gulf between high art and popular styles in the search for new ways to reach listeners’ hearts. They found a new world of artful and fantastical music, of exotic dances, earthy rhythms and expressive harmonies, a vast landscape in which the formal constructions of polyphonic music could be developed anew.

The newly-discovered lands to the West proffered not only gold and silver, but also cultural riches: languages, music and dances, which - when brought back to the Iberian peninsula - had a profound effect on the art forms of the mother country.

The Harp Concert The Harp Consort is an ensemble that excels at improvisation within the distinct styles of baroque, Renaissance and medieval music.The group takes its inspiration from the 17th-century harp consort formed in England at the court of Charles I: in contrast to the homogeneous string orchestra (also formed at this time), the Consorte brought together diverse types of solo instruments – harp, lutes, keyboards, strings – and voices, to create colourful new combinations in the fashion of the day. Like the 17th-century Consorte, The Harp Consort is formed around the accompanying instruments of the basso continuo and brings together an international team of musicians who create a rich variety of timbres.

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From May 8 and throughout the Festival All Day & All Night!

Putting Music in its Place Throughout the City Centre An aural tour of Medieval Galway, featuring the sounds and music of a medieval city in the places you would expect to hear it. This tour is available to you if you have a smartphone!

Start outside the City Museum. See details on inside back cover to access the tour.

Thursday, May 17 6:30 pm

Official Opening of the Festival by Nicholas Carolan, Director of the Irish Traditional Music Archive Sheridan’s Wine Bar, Church Lane

8:00 pm

Vocal Harmony: Motets, Madrigals and Villancicos Cois Cladaigh Chamber Choir St Nicholas Collegiate Church €10 / €5

Friday, May 18 1 pm

1000 Years of Bagpipes in France François Lazarevitch Chapel of the Poor Clares, Nuns’ Island €15 / €10 conc / €7 youth

8:00 pm

Le Berger poète / The Shepherd Poet Suites and sonatas for flute and musette François Lazarevitch & Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien

€18 / €15 / €7 (under 16 yrs)

TICKET BOOKING Online: www.galwayearlymusic.com From 9 May: Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle St At Door of concerts FESTIVAL TICKET: €60 / €45 concession (includes all concerts. Bus to Aughnanure not included)

P ROGRAMME Saturday, May 19 11 am

The Musicians of Bremen - Family Event Animal House Collective The Ruby Room, Kings Head Pub Free Admission

12:30 - 4:00 MUSIC IN THE MUSEUM Galway City Museum, Spanish Arch 12:30-1:30 2:00 - 3:00 3:30 - 4:30

Renaissance Music and Dance Historical Music of Scotland with Barnaby Brown Prehistoric Music Ireland Simon and Maria O’Dwyer

4:30 pm

Walking Tour of Medieval Galway William Henry Starting at The City Museum

8:00 pm

Fantasía y Folía: Wild Rhythm - Artful Dance - Fantastical Improvisation

Andrew Lawrence-King & The Harp Consort St Nicholas Collegiate Church €18 / €15 / €7

Sunday, May 20 1:00 pm A joint Huston/ GEMF screening

4:00 pm

FILM: Master & Commander with pre-show talk on the music used in the soundtrack and light lunch Huston School of Film & Digital Media NUI, Galway, Earl’s Island €7 Musicians of Bremen

Aughnanure Castle, Oughterard (Admission to Castle will be charged)

6:00 pm

4:30 pm

Interlace & the Otherworld Coracle Aughnanure Castle, Oughterard Includes refreshments, tour of castle. €18 / €15 / €7 Bus for event in Aughnanure Castle

Leaving bus stop near Jurys Inn Booking at www.galwayearlymusic.com or 087 930 5506. €5 Have a meal at Cava, Dominick St Festival Hospitality Sponsor

CONCERTS Interlace & the Otherworld Early Music of the Gaelic Word

Coracle Griogair Labhruidh (Gaelic song), Barnaby Brown (triple pipes and bagpipes), Siobhán Armstrong (Early Irish Harp)

Sunday, May 20, 6 pm Aughnanure Castle, Oughterard Prepare to be transported into a magical world.The 'cosmic' or shamanic music of Gaelic culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance is as aweinspiring as the Book of Kells. Plundering treasure troves of poetry, pibroch and sean nós singing, the trio Coracle is inspired by survivals in popular culture. Deftly traversing seas of early and traditional music, these adventurers restore the most magnificent compositions of Highland history to their pristine musical splendour.

Coracle explores the interaction between oral and written sources and challenges the value judgments on notationless musical culture, re-discovering the richness of what was not written down through experimental music archaeology. This includes • looking at the tradition of Caintreachd and music for the piob mor of Scotland • returning the harp music notated in the 17th and 18th centuries for lute or keyboard back to the early Irish harp and exploring the techniques that bring this music to life on its original instrument.

• Exploring the oral tradition of Gaelic singing, both solo and accompanied by the harp as the sources tell us it once was.

Bus to Aughnanure Leaving the Cathedral car park at 4:30 pm.

Book at www.galwayearlymusiccom or 091-930 5506

THANK YOU to all the generous sponsors who supported this concert through Fund It.

EARLY MUSIC IN FILM

Master & Commander The Far Side of the World Sunday, May 20, 1:00 pm Huston School of Film & Digital Media Earls Island, NUI, Galway

Includes a light lunch and tea/coffee

This film takes place in 1805 on board a British man-of-war and is adapted from the historical naval novels by Patrick O’Brien. Nearly the entire film takes place aboard the ship ‘Surprise’ where crew and officers live, fight and die in close quarters for months on end. Music is important on board.

Captain Jack Aubrey and ship’s physician Stephen Maturin play the classical hits of their time on violin and cello, while crew dance to fiddles, jaw harps and whistles. The soundtrack of the film includes music proper to the historical era of the film (as well as an interesting use of Ralph von Williams Fantasy on a theme by Thomas Tallis) and music written specifically for the film.

Pre-Concert Guide to the Music Before the film Maura Ó Cróinín will give a brief guide to the music contemporary to the story used in the film, from the Playford dance tunes to music by Boccherini, Corelli and Bach.

Please note: Film running time 2hrs 18mins. The event will start on time to facilitate those subsequently going to Aughnanure.

Huston/GEMF joint screening

FREE EVENTS FAMILY EVENT The Musicians of Bremen Animal House Collective

Saturday, May 19, 11 am, Ruby Room , Kings Head Pub Sunday, May 20, 4 pm, Aughnanure Castle

Four old and worn out animals whose owners no longer want them decide to go to Bremen to be town musicians, but the music they make has unexpected results!

Zita Monahan, Grace Kiely, Pat Hargan, and Ionia Ní Chróinín of Animal House Collective tell this humorous story, collected by the Brothers Grimm, with music, song and all sorts of theatrical magic.

This is a very propular event during the Festival every year, so come early!

(Please note: Normal admission price to Aughnanure Castle will apply for the Sunday showing of The Musicians of Bremen.)

FREE EVENTS EARLY MUSIC IN THE MUSEUM

Music & Dance Saturday, May 19, 12:30 - 1:30 Galway Early Music’s own ensemble, Seoda, start the fun in the museum, with a lively selection of music and dance.

We’ll be teaching some simple dances that everyone can try, so we hope you will come along and join in! The ensemble includes recorders, bagpipe and percussion.

Historical Music of Scotland: Bagpipes and Triple Pipes Barnaby Brown Saturday, May 19, 2:00 -3:00 pm Barnaby Brown will take you on a fascinating guided tour of the instruments and the music of ancient Scotland.

Barnaby Brown is a performer, animateur and scholar with a passion for illuminating uncharted musical territor. He champions an early music approach to ceòl mòr, the ‘great music’ of the Highland bagpipe. He also leads the revival of the northern triple pipe, the ‘organ’ of the Celtic Church and precursor to the bagpipe in Britain and Ireland.

Ireland’s Oldest Music Saturday, May 19, 3:30 - 4:30 pm Always one of the most popular events of the Festival, Simon O’Dwyer’s story of the beginnings of music in Ireland, from stone whistles and shell horns to the magnificent bronze age horns and beyond is a tour de force.

Venue Map

1. St Nicholas Collegiate Church 2. Chapel of the Poor Clares 3. Kings Head Pub 4. Galway City Museum

5. Huston School of Film & Digital Media 6. Cathedral car park

Aughnanure Castle: If you are driving, head towards Oughterard on the N59. The right turn down to the castle is well signposted. There is a parking lot near the castle.

Bus to Aughnanure: Leaves from the Cathedral car park at 4:30 pm.

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Shor t history Galway Early Music was founded when a group of Galway musicians travelled to Lismore, Co Waterford, for the Lismore Early Music Festival.

It was there that the idea was born: why not bring this rich and sometimes exotic music to the medieval city of Galway - what better venue? The first festival was in 1996 and this is our 17th.

Through the years the Festival has been proud to present such exciting ensembles and performers as Jordi Savall, Andrew Lawrence-King and The Harp Consort, Red Priest, Ensemble Unicorn, The Irish Baroque Orchestra, Resurgam, Ensemble eX and many, many more. The Festival is known for its lively programming and its attention to the place of Irish music and musicians in the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque European music scene.

Galway Early Music is run by a voluntary committee.

More Information www.galwayearlymusic.com tel. +353-(0)87-9305506 e-mail: info@galwayearlymusic.com

SPECIAL EVENT Putting Music in its Place A musical tour of 16th century Galway using GPS and smartphone technology Commissioned by Galway Early Music - Realised by Máiréad Ní Chróínín

Available from May 8 and throughout the festival Spanish merchant Captain Moreno has arrived in Galway, a town he knows well and loves, with a shipment of wine. He takes his shipmate (that’s you) on a tour of this lively town. Along the way you will hear the type of music appropriate to where you are.

What you need • An iPhone or an Android phone and earphones • 7scenes App:You can download this app for free from the iOS or Android stores.

• GPS and internet enabled and active connection with 3G or a WiFi network (make sure it doesn’t have any restrictions).

Sign In • • • •

The tour starts outside the main door of the City Museum Open 7scenes app.You’ll find yourself on the public map Click the blue ‘Info’ button in the top right corner.

Click ‘Log in’ in the bottom right corner. Use the Galway Early Music log in details: Username: GEMF, Password: GEMF2012 or register your own.

• After signing in you will be brought back to the public map

Scenes • Tap the ‘Scenes’ tab. In the top menu tap‘Nearby’. You will see the ‘GEMF Musical Tour’ Scene. Select this scene by tapping the icon.

Start • Once you’ve selected our tour, you will first see a general intro • Hit the red ‘Start’ button in the top-right corner. (When you’re not signed in yet, or if you are too far away from the Scene, this button will say ‘Info’) • If the app asks if you want to download all media now, it is recommended if there is a 3G or WiFi available.

• Once the tour begins you will first be directed to the Intro. Here you will learn more about the the tour. Under the tab ‘Instructions’ you will find more guidance about how to use the tour.

• Tap on the ‘Places’ tab. This will show you the map, with all the points of the tour marked on it. You will see yourself moving on the map in real-time. Move close to a place to automatically activate it.

• A window will appear will a picture of that location in medieval times. A 'Play' icon on the picture will indicate that you can play audio at this spot. Tap to play the audio.

Enjoy the Tour!

(We welcome feedback. Tweet @GEMFtour) This Scene has been tested with iPhone and some Android phones.

Unfortunately it has not been possible to test the application on all devices.

We apologise if it does not work on your smartphone.

There’s a wealth of music programming throughout the week on RTÉ lyric fm.

Marty in the Morning (Mon-Fri, 7am-10am) Join Marty Whelan from 7am each weekday morning for a classic blend of music and entertainment with regular celebrity guests, news and travel updates.

For traffic calming at its best try music, music and more music with a little fun along the way!

The John Kelly Ensemble (Mon-Fri, 2pm-4pm) John Kelly is essential listening for lovers of great music. From Bach to Brian Eno, from Billie Holiday to Sigur Rós, transform your afternoons with a sonic adventure like no other.

The Lyric Concert with Paul Herriott (Mon-Fri, 8pm-10pm) Full orchestral and chamber music concerts from Ireland and abroad, from baroque to modern, with great soloists and ensembles.

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Niall Carroll’s Classical Daytime (Mon-Fri, 10am-2pm) For the ideal accompaniment to your day, join Niall for four hours of great music from the heart of the classical repertoire. Plus, take time out for the Coffee Concert each morning at 11.00am.

Liz Nolan’s Classic Drive (Mon-Fri, 4pm-7pm) The perfect soundtrack to your journey home accompanied by news, traffic, business and entertainment, plus Culture File each day at 6.40pm - a daily guide to creativity in the world around us.

The Blue of the Night with Carl Corcoran (Mon-Thurs) and Eamonn Lenihan (Fri –Sun), 10pm-1am Relax into the Blue of the Night’s pick of the best tunes and songs from the ancient to the contemporary.

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