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In 1907, shortly after publishing his book of love poetry titled Chamber Music, James Joyce penned a letter to his brother Stanislaus: "Some of the verses are pretty enough to be put to music. I ...
Soprano Judith Kellock, pianist Janice Weber and theater critic Fintan O'Toole will present a chamber music performance of Ross Lee Finney's setting of poems by James Joyce on Friday, February 10 at 4 ...
The musical bases of Joyce’s first book Chamber Music (1907) were immediately recognised by Thomas Kettle, Arthur Symons and a host of early reviewers. Once the connection had been established ...
Sir, – Gerard Smyth (An Irishman's Diary, January 25th) draws attention to the interest shown by composers in James Joyce's poetry collection Chamber Music.Although many of these composers were ...
His "pet project" is composing songs from James Joyce's Chamber Music poetry collection. He will record the musically eclectic album with longtime collaborators the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, ...
James Joyce in Zurich, 1915 (image courtesy the UB James Joyce Collection of the Poetry Collection, University Libraries, ... the furtive chamber music unfolding behind closed doors, ...
James Joyce’s 1939 punfest is a word world — it’s been called “verbal soup.” Nonetheless, Martin Pearlman, music director of Boston Baroque, has been working on a musical setting of the ...
Although after his 1916 collection of poems, Chamber Music, Joyce turned his pen to prose, the death of his father in December of 1931 and the birth of his grandson Stephen James Joyce brought him ...
Szymanowski wrote his Seven Songs to Poems of James Joyce from his volume of poetry Chamber Music in 1926, having in mind the American singer Cobinie Wright, who may have never performed them, though.