Diatribe Stage 3: Benjamin Dwyer – What is the word @ New Music Dublin 2020

Diatribe Stage 3: Benjamin Dwyer – What is the word @ New Music Dublin 2020

Saturday, 29 February 2020, 4.00pm
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A musical meditation on the relationship of sound to linguistic structures, ‘What is the word’ is an exploration of the work of Samuel Beckett by contemporary composers Benjamin Dwyer, György Kurtág and Barry Guy. The central piece of the programme is a setting of three beautiful texts by Beckett: ‘Neither’, ‘Worstward Ho’ and ‘What is the word’, Beckett’s last poem.

Benjamin Dwyer - five disjecta (after Beckett)
Benjamin Dwyer - six residua (after Beckett)
Benjamin Dwyer - what is the word (triptych with interludes)
György Kurtág - ‘Hommage a Eberhard Feltz’ after Beckett’s Roundelay
Barry Guy - Five Fizzles (for Samuel Beckett)

Performers:
Maya Homburger baroque violin
Benjamin Dwyer guitar
Barry Guy double bass
The Diatribe stage features a specially-commissioned work by artist Rory Tangney.

Length: 45’

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