David Wallace, composer in residence at CSM, has been comissioned by CSO to write a new work. It is a piece for solo violin and orchestra and we read it through at rehearsal last week It is a beautiful, lyrical piece and tells the story of Aengus and Caer.
Aengus fell in love with a girl he had seen in his dreams. His mother, Boann, searched Ireland for an entire year. Then his father, the Dagda, did the same. Finally, King Bodb Dearg of Munster found her after a year.
Aengus went to the lake of the Dragons's Mouth and found 150 girls chained up in pairs. He found his girl, Caer Ibormeith. On November 1, Caer and the other girls would turn into swans for one year, every second Samhain. Aengus was told he could marry Caer if he could identify her as a swan. Aengus succeeded. He turned himself into a swan and they flew away, singing beautiful music that put all its listeners asleep for three days and nights.
The CSO will give the world premiere in the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on May 10th with Keith Pascoe as soloist.
Probably we will need to check that the audience is still awake at the end!
The orchestra will also perform the Tchaikowsky Piano Concerto No 1 with Ciara Moroney as soloist.
(I had a Skype-lesson from Charlie today on embedding web-links. Practice makes perfect!)
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