Our second look at this season of Live-Screened Events at the Eye Cinema, Galway.
The Western Skyline takes in opera, ballet, theatre, and art exhibitions.
For full details go to www.eyecinema.ie
Music on the show includes Wagner, Verdi, Gounod, Poulenc, Stravinsky, Thomas Arne, and Prokofiev. And some wonderful singing!
This Western Skyline takes a look at all the offerings ‘Live in the Cinema’: Operas, Ballets, Theatre, Art exhibitions – with music from some of 2018-2019 season’s best-loved works.
Also ‘Remorse’, a poem by Siegfried Sassoon, – to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice – followed by Leontyne Price singing the Miserere from Il Trovatore.
And we remember the wonderful soprano Monserrat Caballe, who died in October.
Here is a link to last Saturday’s The Western Skyline on Kinvara FM 92.4fm.
It was only as it went out that I realised that the Withnail & I clip was a bit low – so here is a link to the film clip on YouTube.
SO, a Western Skyline Special – this time focused on Live Events being shown at the Eye Cinema, Galway over the next six months. Today’s show highlights music and arias from operas by Bellini, Mozart, Puccini, & Donizetti.
There’s news of an animated film ‘Loving Vincent’ – dedicated to the life and work of Van Gogh, and – also at the Eye Cinema – an encore performance by Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet on 5th October. Instead of the poem this week, listen to Richard E Grant’s rendition of ‘What a piece of work is a man’ (Hamlet), in the closing scene of ‘Withnail & I’. (Filmed in a downpour at the Zoo).
We have details of a new dance/cello collaboration between Jean Butler & Neil Martin. Finally, there’s an instrumental version of a well -loved modern song – from Galway-based ConTempo Quartet.
If you’d like to hear another classical Western Skyline – let me know. Just email kinvarafm@gmail.com and put The Western Skyline in the subject line. As always – Thanks for listening!
Karen J McDonnell 