Que encanto, amiga! Parabéns, orgulho-me tê-la como amiga. Encantadora é a sua voz... obrigada.

Silviane Bellato, sua voz é como a voz de um anjo, quando escuto vou ao céu!

Music composed by Vincent Kennedy. Mark Redmond Uilleann Pipes, Rathfarnham Concert Band, Vincent Kennedy Composer and Conductor. Recorded live at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland.  Originally commissioned under the Peace Process supported by the Ireland Fund

Where The North Wind Blows

Music by Vincent Kennedy
Soloist Cora Venus Lunny - Violin. Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Colman Pearce.
Recorded live New York, USA March 2009

Dreams for Solo Violin and Orchestra

A crítica da chapa, no jornal O País em 1929, revelava a sonoridade de um universo desconhecido: “Batuque” é monumental. Quem o ouve adquire a impressão exata de estar presente, sem que ninguém o veja, às prodigiosas festas íntimas dos negros, verdadeiras reuniões privativas dessa raça nas quais ela passa momentos de completa independência e dá largas à sua natureza meio selvagem. Nessa música temos a África tornada brasileira e revemos os tempos em que o negro nas suas reuniões privadas, às vezes de caráter algo religioso, dava expansão à sua revolta contra a tirania exercida pelo branco.” Lançado em disco em 1929 pela cantora e folclorista pernambucana Stefana de Macedo em arranjo para duo de violões, “Batuque” (Columbia 5.093-A) apontava no selo sua origem no Século XVII: “Dança dos Quilombo dos Palmares”. www.goma-laca.com

Stefana de Macedo - Batuque (1929)

Music By Vincent Kennedy - Performed by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, live broadcast from the National Concert Hall, Dublin. Conductor Gavin Maloney. 

Dublin - Overture to My City
I chose the word "My" in “My City” for the title of this music because my view of the city, my experiences are unique to me. It is this view that I have set about to convey. Dublin City means different things to different people.  I grew up in Smiths Cottages, Donnybrook and spent most of my primary and all my secondary schooling in CBS Westland Row.  At lunchtime from school we explored the south inner city, the Art Galleries and Museums, the wonderland of Grafton Street, the Dandelion Market.   My dad was a bus conductor on the 47 bus and we would often travel on his bus on Saturdays up to Tibradden, Larch Hill and Rockbrook on the Dublin mountains. I worked for a number of years as a Social Welfare Officer in many parts of the city and walked hundreds of its streets particularly the north inner city and all the villages and roads out to Howth.   I played sport all across the city and have a particular fondness for glories achieved in the Phoenix Park.  I swam from all the beaches from Sandymount to Williamstown, Blackrock and Seapoint. 

I had been looking for the opportunity to write music about Dublin when RTÉ commissioned me to write music for a concert in which the theme would predominantly be flight. I immediately thought of a way I could marry my desire to write about my native Dublin and associate it with that theme.  
 
The music begins quietly as if looking out of an aeroplane hoping for the first sign of Dublin as one returns from abroad approaching the city from above the Irish Sea.  I signify this here with the Harp, sunlight suddenly reflecting back off a high building which draws the eye in.  The solo Trumpet reflects the majesty of the city as it begins to open up below.  I imagine the aeroplane veering gently and turning around by Kilakee Mountain and the wonderful vista of Dublin one can see from there.  This is the climax of the opening section as the full orchestra majestically proclaims the fair city below with the white sea horses from the bay in the distance. Then quietly we hear the four Horns of the Thomas Davis fountain in College Green calling out.  There follows a fast section which begins in my imagination as a low flight up the Liffey from Ringsend. The Timpani calls attempt to awaken Anna Livia (the legendary spirit of the river) while the Brass (and Snare Drum) represent the new and old buildings that sprang up along the quays, being passed on either side. 
These calls animate the two birds from one of the five scenes on the outside wall of Andrew Street Post Office.  They take flight and continue the movement above the river Liffey drawing more and more to accompany them. You can almost smell the hops above the hustle and bustle as they pass over the Guinness brewery onwards to the Phoenix Park which is alive with all sorts of activities including the deer on the run.  The elephants in the Zoo blast out as the aerial flocks fly back towards the city before abruptly landing around the twin cathedrals of Christchurch and St. Patricks.  The church bells ring out loudly. A quiet Brass choir enters signifying the spiritual dimensions of the city and in my mind’s eye the music moves us down by City Hall and Dublin Castle.  The solo Violin represents scenes and acts of love and kindness that are an everyday sight throughout town.  Onwards past the statue of Edmund Burke and thoughts on his words that "all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing". The slow movement continues into Trinity College and onto Westland Row. There on those streets memories of music, the Pearse brothers, Leopold Bloom and Oscar Wilde and viewed from above, the tree lined southern suburbs of my childhood.  Turning back down onto O'Connell Street the statue of Jim Larkin and thoughts on the assertion that "the great appear great because we are on our knees, let us arise" and Charles Stewart Parnell’s words that "No man has the right to say to his country - Thus far shalt thou go and no further"...on by the Gate Theatre, the Rotunda Maternity Hospital, and the Garden of Remembrance.  In the music too, memories of Risings and great demonstrations, marches and parades passing. 
The two birds, then slowly rise around the spire and we hear the beginnings of the broadening out of the north city slowly beneath. We move grandly towards Howth. There from the summit we have that majestic glorious view of the Dublin bathed in sunlight. In the quiet aftermath of this, two lovers (solo Cellos) walk on Dollymount strand, the gentle waves lapping at their feet.  Then with solo clarinet we are transported back to the sculpture of Cu Chulainn in the GPO and those immortal words that "the Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and all of its parts, cherishing all of the children of the nation equally". The Timpani awakes, streets are busy with life again and the music soars to the majesty of Dublin with a triumphant Finale.  "Dublin - Overture to My City" received its world premiere at a public concert on Tuesday 11th August 2009 in the National Concert Hall, Dublin.  This revised version includes an additional three and half minutes of music.         Vincent Kennedy June 2011

Dublin - Overture To My City

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