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Salon Éire 100: Out of the Ashes—Conor Linehan in Recital

Conor Linehan, acclaimed pianist and composer of the Abbey TheatreIreland’s National Theatre, offers a musical exploration of Irish history. In this informal concert, Conor performs music from the period of the 1916 Easter Rising, when Ireland began their revolution against British rule, up to contemporary music from Ireland in 2016. Conor will play and discuss music by early twentieth and twenty first century Irish and Irish related composers, such as Victor Herbert and Arnold Bax, along with excerpts from Maurice Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, which commemorates friends of the composer who lost their lives in World War I. In addition Conor will perform his own contemporary compositions and improvisations on Irish songs of 1916, and will discuss the material played and the cultural and political context in which the music was created. This concert promises to be an entertaining, moving, and informative musical account of 100 years of Irish history.











When: Thu., May. 19, 2016 at 6:00 pm
Where: New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
212-870-1600
Price: Free
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Conor Linehan, acclaimed pianist and composer of the Abbey TheatreIreland’s National Theatre, offers a musical exploration of Irish history. In this informal concert, Conor performs music from the period of the 1916 Easter Rising, when Ireland began their revolution against British rule, up to contemporary music from Ireland in 2016. Conor will play and discuss music by early twentieth and twenty first century Irish and Irish related composers, such as Victor Herbert and Arnold Bax, along with excerpts from Maurice Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, which commemorates friends of the composer who lost their lives in World War I. In addition Conor will perform his own contemporary compositions and improvisations on Irish songs of 1916, and will discuss the material played and the cultural and political context in which the music was created. This concert promises to be an entertaining, moving, and informative musical account of 100 years of Irish history.

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