RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Featured composer: Raymond Deane
Gavin Maloney conductor
Carl Ruggles Portals [7’]
Raymond Deane Epitomes [8’]
Raymond Deane Ripieno [30’]
Horizons 2013: Contemporary Music Series| FREE
Composers Bypassed By History Depend On Posterity to Wage Their Struggle For Recognition. Carl Ruggles (1876–1971) was an uncompromising American pioneer who completed only 10 musical works in his long life. Portals for strings (1925) is typically intense and contrapuntal. My Epitomes, written for the Dublin Orchestras for Young Players, is 20 years old. An elegy for my father is framed by two almost minimalist miniatures. Ripieno (1999), by contrast, is my longest and most elaborate orchestral work to date.’ Raymond Deane
12.30pm: Composers in Conversation
Contemporary Music Centre Director Evonne Ferguson with composer Raymond Deane
*Composers in Conversation in association with Contemporary Music Centre