Strike up the bands
IT is a compliment to the big well of creativity in the Arts in Limerick that so much is going on. There’s more coming on-board too with the start of funded body Dance Ireland, working out of Daghdha Space, and the roll out of Limerick Arts Encounter until March 2013.
September is season opener when many groups come together for performance or first rehearsal and Limerick Post can flag those recruiting on an extra mural basis:
Voices of Limerick are meeting at Monday nights 8-9 in Mary Immaculate College for rehearsals and have room for new soprano, alto, tenor, bass voices. Audition is essential so go online at www.voicesoflimerick.com…
Boherbuoy Band (1850) welcomes new musical director Yianglong Jiang after Derbhile dePaor’s stepping down 13 years into the role and three national titles for the band. Ying is a French horn player and will led rehearsals held on Wednesday nights at 8.30pm; also Sunday mornings at 11.15am at the band room in Lord Edward Street. See www.boherbuoy.com….
UL Orchestra begins rehearsals on Tuesday September 24, 7.30-10pm for its concert in the ICO building on campus on Saturday December 7. Conductor Liam Daly has tipped a programme of Schubert, Suppe, Christmas and choral works and a film score….
Vanbrugh Quartet
THE next concert in the Classical Concert series in Castleconnell celebrating The String Quartet will feature the RTE’s own Vanbrugh Quartet. This will take place on Tuesday 24 next at the regular venue of All Saints’ Church, 8pm.
Their chosen programme includes one of Beethoven’s earliest quartets Op. 18 No.1, Dvorak’s last Quartet, Op 14, finished in 1895 and then one of the great chamber works of the 20th century, Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 8.
No. 8 is his most popular, being performed more frequently than the other 14 together.
You can get a leaflet on the Autumn quartet series from City Hall at artsoffice@limerickcity.ie
Separate Tables
BOTTOM Dog Theatre Company approaches the third of its 2013 Four Plays Four Places series. Placing each drama in a setting natural to it, this show’s director May O’Halloran of Expressive Arts school chose the Absolute Hotel for her take on Terence Rattigan’s ‘Separate Tables’.
He’s back in vogue in the West End and this rehearsed reading will tell us why on Sunday September 22 at 8pm. Pictured, Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr steal a kiss in the film original.
