The Waterloo Concert with the Delmaine String Quartet @ Dalkey Book Festival

The Waterloo Concert with the Delmaine String Quartet @ Dalkey Book Festival

Saturday, 17 June 2017, 4.00pm

First presented in Dangan, Co Meath in June 2015 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo and the Duke of Wellington’s historic connection with the Irish countryside, the Waterloo Concert features the Delmaine String Quartet and a cast of actors and singers in a programme of music, song, poetry and prose that reflects many aspects of the great battle and its aftermath. Works by Haydn, Mozart and Mahler are performed.

Actors Michael James Ford and Gary Jermyn relive the famous battle and the epic rivalry between Wellington and Bonaparte in a narrative that includes works by Lord Byron, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Longford and Rudyard Kipling along with the Iron Duke’s own letters and military dispatches.

Presented by Antelope Productions & the Delmaine String Quartet.

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Published by Journal of Music on 24 April 2017

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