All the Ends of the Earth
October 2011 brings Ergodos Musicians from Brooklyn to Temple Bar performing All the Ends of the Earth.
Ergodos | All the Ends of the Earth | Issue @ 110 Livingston, Brooklyn, New York | Thursday, October 6th | 7PM | €15/10
Ergodos | All the Ends of the Earth | Project Arts Centre, Dublin | Saturday, October 29th | 8PM | €15/10
All the Ends of the Earth is a meditation on the allure and beauty of the music of Medieval French composer Léonin. This performance by Ergodos Musicians (featuring vocalists Michelle O’Rourke and Nora Ryan) will capture your imagination and your emotions.
The programme features seven works – contemporary arrangements of Léonin’s original compositions, and new works inspired by their muscular beauty. The result is one cohesive musical experience that will leave your mind dancing and your soul moved.
Here is an excerpt from the press release:
‘It is [Léonin's] transcendentalism that has captured the aural imagination of several young composers. All the Ends of the Earth showcases three Irish composers who have found inspiration in the clarity of Léonin’s constructions, and the quality of his simple materials: Garrett Sholdice’s work represents a new and personal conceptualization of Léonin’s forms; Benedict Schlepper-Connolly’s language resonates with the austerity of Léonin – Schlepper-Connolly continuously re-shapes, and strips away, searching for an essence; Linda Buckley’s slow-burning, almost gothic works invoke the muscular harmonic world of medieval organum.’
The performance is part of a two-country tour, in which Ergodos Musicians will be premiering All the Ends of the Earth in New York City on 6 October as part of Imagine Ireland, Culture Ireland’s year of Irish arts in America.
For more information on All the Ends of the Earth or for press and interviews, please contact Claire Hefferon on claire@ergodos.ie.
