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A screening of the 1926 film Irish Destiny will be accompanied by the chamber orchestra playing a score by Ó'Súilleabháin. Other Irish music, much of it composed by Ó'Súilleabháin, completes the program. This concert continues the collaboration between Ithaca College and the University of Limerick's Irish World Music Centre, a graduate school that offers performance and academic courses in music and dance, with a special interest in Irish and Irish-related music. In 1999 an anonymous gift established a program that enables students from the music center and Ithaca College to study at the partner institution. The gift also supports a series of performance exchanges. Ó'Súilleabháin is the founder and director of the center. He and the chamber orchestra have been invited to repeat their Ithaca College performance as part of the gala concert in New York University's newly opened Skirball Performing Arts Center on Thursday, October 9. For that concert, the chamber orchestra will be joined by Eileen Ivers, Niall Keegan, Sandra Joyce, Joanie Madden, Mick Moloney, Dana Lyn, Patrick Ourceau, and other outstanding traditional musicians and dancers. A special treat will be the premiere of new choreography by ex-Riverdance dancer Colin Dunne. The concert is part of a weeklong festival entitled "West Along the Road" that celebrates the 10th anniversary of New York University's Glucksman Ireland House and showcases New York City as a cultural crossroads of Ireland and America. Contributed by Erik Kibelsbeck |
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