{"id":643,"date":"2018-01-06T16:51:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T16:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/erin\/?p=643"},"modified":"2018-01-06T16:51:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T16:51:56","slug":"an-oriental-romance-thomas-moores-lalla-rookh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/erin\/2018\/01\/06\/an-oriental-romance-thomas-moores-lalla-rookh\/","title":{"rendered":"An Oriental Romance : Thomas Moore\u2019s Lalla Rookh."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier blog post, Tr\u00edona O&#8217;Hanlon announced the immediate airing of\u00a0 the ERIN radio documentary \u201cAn oriental romance: Thomas Moore\u2019s Lalla Rookh\u201d on RT\u00c9 Lyric. An icloud account for this recording is now available at:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/the-lyric-feature\/an-oriental-romance-thomas-moores-lalla-rookh<\/p>\n<p><em>Technician &amp; Technical Assistant: Dr David Bird (QUB), Ois\u00edn Hughes (QUB)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Producer &amp; Presenter: Claire Cunningham (Rockfinch Ltd.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This documentary, which marked the 200th anniversary of the first edition, includes excerpts of rarely-heard music inspired by Thomas Moore&#8217;s &#8216;oriental romance&#8217;. Mezzo soprano Helen Aiken and pianist Aoife O&#8217;Sullivan perform works by Victorian composer John Francis Barnett, the American Moravian composer George Klemm, as well as from the work that launched Robert Schumann as a composer of substance &#8211; <em>Das Paradies und die Peri<\/em> (1843). The reception of the first Irish performance of this work is discussed by Anja Bunzel, a recent PhD candidate of NUI Maynooth. We hear the mezzo soprano Martha O&#8217;Brien rehearsing Mozart-student Thomas Attwood&#8217;s cantata &#8220;Her hands were clasp&#8217;d&#8221; with O&#8217;Sullivan and\u00a0Sin\u00e9ad Campbell-Wallace of the Dublin Institute of Technology. Martha later performs George Kiallmark&#8217;s &#8220;Farewell to thee Araby&#8217;s Daughter&#8221; from an original edition issued by Moore&#8217;s publisher James Power. BMUS students from Queen&#8217;s University of Belfast (flautists Poppy Wheeler and Ciara Jackson, accompanied by Jenny Garrett on piano)\u00a0 perform an arrangement of Sir John Stevenson&#8217;s tender response to Moore&#8217;s &#8220;&#8216;Twas his own voice&#8221;- a text that marks a pivotal moment in the story of the star-crossed lovers Hinda and Hafed. Further contributions on\u00a0 Moore&#8217;s &#8216;oriental romance&#8217; itself and its cultural context are provided by Drs Daniel Roberts, \u00a0 Sarah McCleave, and Tr\u00edona O&#8217;Hanlon (Queen&#8217;s University Belfast), while librarians S\u00edobhan Fitzpatrick (Royal Irish Academy) and Gerry Long (National Library of Ireland) discuss works by Moore in their collections; the Royal Irish Academy possesses a significant portion of Moore&#8217;s own library, which is available for consultation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier blog post, Tr\u00edona O&#8217;Hanlon announced the immediate airing of\u00a0 the ERIN radio documentary \u201cAn oriental romance: Thomas Moore\u2019s Lalla Rookh\u201d on RT\u00c9 Lyric. An icloud account for this recording is now available at: https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/the-lyric-feature\/an-oriental-romance-thomas-moores-lalla-rookh Technician &amp; Technical Assistant: Dr David Bird (QUB), Ois\u00edn Hughes (QUB) Producer &amp; Presenter: Claire Cunningham (Rockfinch Ltd.) 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