{"id":416,"date":"2017-02-13T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/erin\/?p=416"},"modified":"2022-03-09T21:47:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:47:16","slug":"lalla-rookhs-200th-at-queens-university-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/erin\/2017\/02\/13\/lalla-rookhs-200th-at-queens-university-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Lalla Rookh’s 200th at Queen’s University Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Music at Queen’s University Belfast is running a new module in spring 2017, called ‘A Night at the Opera’. For this module, final-year BMUS students collaborate on a concert for their assessed project. The core text for this year’s cohort of sixteen students is none other than Moore’s ‘Lalla Rookh’ (1817), which inspired numerous songs (for the domestic market), cantatas (for choral societies of the time), and operas (for opera houses in Dublin, Paris, London, Dresden, etc.) from the early romantic period through to the Edwardian era. With two sopranos, a mezzo, one tenor, one bass, two pianists, two violins, and one each playing flute, clarinet, and oboe, we will have to arrange some of the existing music to suit our forces. So some of the students are performing, some are arranging music, and others will be acting as presenters to provide a narrative as well as some visual display to support the selection of music.\u00a0 One of the students, who has taken sound engineering modules in our BSc, will record the event to add to the ERIN project website. At our planning meeting last week we came\u00a0 up with a provisional list of repertory, which will be refined further over the next couple of weeks as we begin rehearsals.<\/p>\n

Lalla Rookh Bicentennial Concert, 11 May 2017 @ 13:10 Harty Room<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Cover,<\/a>
Cover, Lalla Rookh: an oriental romance, illustrated by John Tenniel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Provisional Programme<\/strong><\/p>\n

Part I. Lalla Rookh and Feramors<\/p>\n

Ballet music from Anton Rubinstein’s opera Feramors<\/em> (Dresden, 1863)<\/p>\n

\u00a0“<\/b>Sous le feuillage”\u00a0 from F\u00e9licien David\u2019s comic opera Lalla Roukh<\/i> (Paris, 1862)<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll sing thee songs of Araby\u201d from Frederic Clay’s cantata Lalla Rookh<\/em> (Brighton, 1877)
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0Part II. The Veiled Prophet<\/p>\n

‘Bendermeer\u2019s Stream’ from\u00a0 Charles Villiers Stanford’s opera The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan (Hanover, 1881).<\/p>\n

Part III. Paradise and the Peri<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/b>\u201cVom Eden\u2019s Thor\u201d, from Robert Schumann’s oratorio, Das Paradies und die Peri<\/i> (Leipzig, 1843)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe glorious Angel\u201d (recit.) > \u201cNymph of a fair but erring race\u201d (aria)<\/p>\n

\u201cSweet said the Angel\u201d (arietta)<\/p>\n

\u201cTrue was the maiden\u201d (recit and arietta),<\/i> from John Barnett\u2019s cantata, Paradise and the Peri<\/i> (pub. London, 1870)<\/p>\n

\u201cSchumcket die Stufen zu Allahs Thron\u201d, from Schumann, Das Paradies und die Peri<\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0The Peri Pardon\u2019d<\/em>, cantata by John Clarke (pub. London, 1818)<\/p>\n

Part IV. The Fire Worshippers
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cHer hands were clasped\u201d, a recit.-aria by Thomas Attwood (pub. London, 1818)<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019Twas his own Voice\u201d, recit.-aria by Sir John Stevenson (pub. London, 1817)<\/p>\n

\u201cFarewell to thee Araby\u2019s Daughter\u201d, duet for soprano and tenor by Lady Flint, Five Songs from Lalla Rookh<\/em>\u00a0 (pub. London, 1818)<\/p>\n

\u00a0Part V. The Light of the Harem<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2018Namouna\u2019s Song\u2019 \u201cI know where the winged visions dwell\u201d, from Lady Flint, Five Songs<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFly to the Desert\u201d, song by\u00a0 George Kiallmark (pub. London, 1817)<\/p>\n

Image courtesy of Special Collections, McClay Library, Queen’s University Belfast<\/p>\n

NB: Future blog posts may be written by some of the students enrolled in ‘A Night at the Opera’.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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