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Prof Peter Glazer (University of Berkeley) and Patrick Ball (Musician), Moore Institute Visiting Fellows present ‘ Musics of a Lost Kingdom: Yeats, Story and Song’.
June 16, 2016 @ 4:00 pm
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Prof. Peter Glazer (Berkeley) and Patrick Ball (musician)
‰Û÷Musics of a Lost Kingdom:
Yeats, Story and Song’
The remarkable, crystalline sound of the wire strung harp (the clÌÊrsach) was at the centre of Irish culture and legend for 700 years, most famously in the playing of Turlough O’Carolan. Yet it was wholly absent from the Celtic Revival. This talk investigates how the clÌÊrsach might help illuminate Yeats’s stories and poetry. Patrick Ball and Peter Glazer will discuss their collaboration to develop a performance piece on this subject, with demonstrations of the harp by Patrick.
4pm Thursday 16 June
Bridge Seminar Room, 1001
Hardiman Research Building