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Mirrors at Dlr Lexicon

Courtesy of Improvised Music Company | Posted on January 20, 2016

Where

Dlr Lexicon
Haigh Terrace, Moran Park, Dún Laoghaire
Dublin
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When

Tue, March 1, 2016
20:00

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Poems by W.B.Yeats, Lewis Carroll and Stevie Smith with the music of Kenny Wheeler

Tuesday 1st March with the Kilkenny College Senior Choir
Friday 4 March with the The Resurgam Choir

As part of a tour of Ireland, these concerts in The Studio of the LEXICON in Dún Laoghaire are jointly presented by the Improvised Music Company and Jazz on the Terrace.

“The best time of day is always when you’re on the stand. If the music’s good it always puts everything else into perspective.” Kenny Wheeler

Kenny Wheeler’s wonderful musical settings performed by the new Irish jazz voice Lauren Kinsella, as part of the Lauren Kinsella’s Irish Jazz Sextet, and accompanied each night by a different choir. This concert does not quite conform to a traditional form of touring, it is one where there has to be a high degree of engagement between a group of professional jazz musicians and two dedicated choirs. For the Tuesday performance the Kilkenny College Senior Choir will be accompanying, and for the Friday performance, The Resurgam Choir. Both choirs will be conducted by the extraordinary jazz choirmaster Pete Churchill. The two choirs on this tour will never have rehearsed and performed with jazz musicians or a jazz choir director like Pete Churchill and will each provide a distinct interpretation of 'Mirrors'....

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