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Diatribe Stage 3: Benjamin Dwyer What is the word

Sat, 29 Feb

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Room 103, National Concert Hall

A musical meditation on the relationship of sound to linguistic structures, ‘What is the word’ is an exploration of the work of Samuel Beckett

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Diatribe Stage 3: Benjamin Dwyer What is the word
Diatribe Stage 3: Benjamin Dwyer What is the word

Where and When

29 Feb 2020, 16:00 – 17:00

Room 103, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Saint Kevin's, Dublin 2, Ireland

About the Event

A musical meditation on the relationship of sound to linguistic structures, ‘What is the word’ is an exploration of the work of Samuel Beckett by contemporary composers Benjamin Dwyer, György Kurtág and Barry Guy. The central piece of the programme is a setting of three beautiful texts by Beckett: ‘Neither’, ‘Worstward Ho’ and ‘What is the word’, Beckett’s last poem. 

Benjamin Dwyer five disjecta (after Beckett) 

Benjamin Dwyer six residua (after Beckett) 

Benjamin Dwyer what is the word (triptych with interludes)

György Kurtág‘Hommage a Eberhard Feltz’ after Beckett’s Roundelay

Barry Guy Five Fizzles (for Samuel Beckett)

 

Performers:

Maya Homburger baroque violin

Benjamin Dwyer guitar, prepared guitar

Barry Guy double bass

Mark D'Aughton actor

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Photo Credit: Olesya Zdorovetska

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