Arts Week with Judy Murphy

Oranmore-based soprano Helen Hancock will lead a night of music and song by composers including Schubert, Schumann, and Strauss this Saturday, March 18, for St Patrick’s Weekend.

The concert, entitled The Lark in the Clear Air will also feature a host of Irish tunes. It takes place in Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre on Saturday, starting at 8pm when Helen will be accompanied by Italian pianist Annalisa Monticelli and American clarinettist, Berginald Rash

The programme will feature Schubert’s Shepherd on a Rock and Arnold Cooke’s Songs of Innocence, both written for soprano, clarinet, and piano.

Shepherd on a Rock was composed in 1828, during the last months of Schubert’s life, and explores themes of longing, the arrival of spring, and journeying to the beloved. Cooke’s Songs of Innocence was inspired by the poetry of 19th century English poet and artist, William Blake.

Themes of nature and the cycle of life will be further explored in Strauss’s and Clara Schumann’s songs for soprano and piano, including  Die Stille Lotosblume and Zueignung.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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