Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin : a life in music
2024
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This is a collection of essays and reflections around the musical life of Micheal O Suilleabhain. With contributions from musicians, artists, dancers, academics, students, poets, politicians and media personalities, the book explores the multifaceted life of one of Ireland's best-known musicians. Ranging in style from the scholarly to the personal, the anecdotal and the poetic, each piece offers a unique perspective on his life and work. This richly illustrated volume brings together the voices of those who knew him best and captures his wide-ranging influence as an educator, performer, composer and cultural personality.
Príomhtheideal:
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin : a life in music / edited by Helen Phelan, Nicholas Carolan, Marie McCarthy.
Údar:
Inphrionta:
Cork : Cork University Press, 2024.
Leathanaigh in ord:
xiv, 610 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs (colour and black and white), facsims., music scores ; 24cm.
Nótaí:
Includes bibliographic references and index (p.p. 499 - 610), as well as a discography, bibliography of his own works, and a list of his select scores.
Contents:
PART I: MUSICIAN:Foreword / Nicholas CarolanElver Gleams:The Making of Fresh Music / Paddy GlackinAn Bóthar Ard ón gCrosbhóthar / Máire Nic Fhinn‘This is, in several ways, an experimental recording …’ / Declan ColganIt Began Literally as a Dream / Nóirín Ní RiainBecoming:‘Let’s start with an improvisation’: Playing the saxophone for Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin / Kenneth EdgeThe First Time I Met Mícheál O’Smoothie-Phone / Brian KennedyMícheál and the ICO: A musical journey / Gerard KeenanA Bridge Between Worlds / Sinead HayesInspirational Torch Bearer / Martin HayesMoments / Iarla Ó LionáirdBetween Worlds:Distant Beating Hearts / David BrophyMícheál Ó Súilleabháin: A force for good / Neil MartinA Conversation on Music and Memory / Mary Coll and Joan Sheehy'Irish Destiny': The movie, the music, the maestro / Sunniva O’FlynnAlong the Enchanted Way: Recollections of a church musician / John O’KeeffeThe Mediator and the ‘Disappointment’: Understanding Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin’s contribution to Irish composition / Toner QuinnPART II: EDUCATOR:Foreword / Marie McCarthyThe Dolphin’s Way:Reflections from the Well / Mel MercierThe Scholar’s Harvest Home: Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and the student experience of traditional music at third level / Sandra Joyce'Francesco Walks': A personal reflection / Liz DohertyA Creative Process: Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin at UCC / Niall Vallely‘The Dolphin’s Way’: Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin’s pioneering work at the Department of Music, University College Cork (1975–93) / Mary Mitchell-IngoldsbyMícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Ethnomusicology and Queen’s University Belfast / John BailyTemplum:Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin / Edward WalshAlways Unfolding Knowing: Toyota Performing Arts Initiative as curriculum of event, cultural object and lived experience / Margaret O’SullivanAn Dúghabháil: Reifying the source / Ríonach uí ÓgáinThe CÉILÍ and the HOUSE OF LIGHT / Daniel CordierOf Our Times / David J. ElliottTowards a National Ethnomusicology / John Morgan O’ConnellEngaging Traditional Ears in the Irish World Academy’s Ethnomusicology Programme / Susan H. MotherwayEthnochoreology and Traditional Dance in the Irish World Academy / Catherine E. Foley, Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain and Mats MelinMusic Education at the Irish World AcademyJean Downey and Ernestine HealyLighting the Fire: Perspectives on the development of the Classical String Performance programme at the Irish World Academy / Diane Daly and Ferenc SzűcsThe MA Programme in Ritual Chant and Song: A mirror of a grand spirit / Edward Foley and Sr Sidonia FreedmanMusic Therapy at the Irish World Academy: A ‘lobal’ reflection' / Tríona McCaffrey and Jane EdwardsMícheál Ó Súilleabháin: ‘Ah, sweet dancer’ / Mary NunanConferring the Céilí: Irish traditional music programmes at the Irish World Academy / Niall KeeganCommunity Music in the Irish World Academy: Opening, inspiration, rupture / Kari K. Veblen and Kathleen TurnerMoving Song: Reflections on the BA Voice and Dance / Jennifer de Brún, Hannah Fahey and Óscar MascareñasMícheál Ó Súilleabháin: My personal psychopomp / Carl CorcoranBetween Worlds: Being, becoming and belonging / Mary Louise O’Donnell and Matthew James NooneLumen:The Grace of His Teaching: Lessons from Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin / Patricia Shehan Campbell‘there for the crossing’: Reflections on the practical and the poeticAnya Peterson RoyceThree Meetings with Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin from 1985 to 2017 / Tran Quang HaiMícheál Ó Súilleabháin: The candle and the light / Christopher FraylingTransmodal Curriculum Maker, Symbolic Leader / Regina MurphyMícheál Ó Súilleabháin: Encounters with a musical visionary / Svanibor Pettan‘My Love is in America’: Mícheál brings Irish music to Boston College / Elizabeth Sweeney and ChrisPART III: CULTURAL MEDIATOR:Foreword / Helen PhelanCasadh/TurningMemories of Mícheál: Cuimhní cinn ar Mhícheál / Lillis Ó LaoireCófra na mBeart Caillte / Áine Uí CheallaighTéada Machnaimh agus Téada Gutha: Ceist na teangan sa cheol Gaelach / Tríona Ní ShíocháinGaiseadh/Flowing:Listening to Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin Play ‘Carolan’s Farewell to Music’ on the Piano / Paula MeehanElegy Between Worlds / Thomas McCarthyA Planxty for Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin /Joseph O’ConnorIrish Destiny (1926) / Tom FrenchThe rags of Time / Paddy BusheAcross the Plains of Boyle / Vincent WoodsWhere music begins / Eva BourkeEuydice speaks / Enda WyleyAir: the map of the world / Eiléan Ní ChuilleanáinBetween the jigs and the reels / Moya CannonBetween the beats at The Moorings Bar / Michael CoadyAnonymous: a blackbird / Paul MuldoonInterludes / Peter SirrEarly Music / Míchéal (Moley) O SúilleabháinTigín i gCnocán a' Phaoraigh / Áine Uí FhoghlúFor Mícheál / Fiona BolgerThe music of the morning sun / David WhyteCeol / Gerard SmythChurch Music / John McAuliffeBack on the island / Bernard O'DonoghueMarbhna on a grand piano / Theo DorganLike a soul / Martin DyarOILEÁN/ISLANDMícheál O Súilleabháin and Seamus Heaney: Boundaries, meditation and redress / Johanne Devlin TrewTuras go Tír na nOg: a personal reflection / Nuala O'ConnorA river of sound / Philip KingA constant companion in music / Aodán O DubhghaillHistory lessons / Rod Stoneman'Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral': musical priests on screen and Irish-American identity / Méabh Ní FhuartháinThe gleam of the elver and the work of the heart: reflections on Mícheál O Súilleabháin / Timothy Emlyn JonesA joureny of the soul / Page AllenLearning from Micheál: placing culture at the heart of regenerative innovation / Finbarr BradleyPlanxty: a newly-coined word for a new kind of composition? / Cathal Goan'The local is the path to true globalisation': Mícheál as musical mediator and the redress of the Irish psyche / Owen O SúilleabháinIrish Music (re-)defined: thewritings of Mícheál O Súilleabháin / John O'FlynnThe daring young amn on the flying trapeze: A personal recollection and evaluation by a musician and an educator / Fintan VallelyTradition and the individual talent: O Súilleabháin in the light of Heaney / Harry WhiteEpilogue: Homily at the funeral mass for Mícheál O Súilleabháin / Marek Patrick Hederman OSB.Works by Mícheál O Súilleabháin: Discography, Writings and Selected Scores: Mícheál O Súilleabháin : Discography / Nicholas CarolanMícheál O Súilleabháin : Writings / John O'Flynn, Helen Phelan, Marie McCarthy and Nicholas CarolanMícheál O Súilleabháin : Select Scores / Contemporary Music CentreNotesBibliographyIndex.
ISBN:
9781782050162 (hbk)
Rangúchán Dewey:
920 O'Su780.941780.9415780.92920
I dteanga:
English
Réimse:
BRN:
3498305