The Wicklow Piano Concerto

This blog has been set up to document a composition project by Cheryl Frances-Hoad. The idea, to write a piano concerto for pianist Bobby Chen and the Greystones Orchestra, based on the ideas and contributions of people of Co. Wicklow, Ireland, won the Music Commission from Wicklow County Council's Per Cent for Arts Scheme.

Sunday, 13 January 2008

Last day

On our last day in Co. Wicklow we went to St. Fergal's school in Bray for another two 45 minute workshops. We again decided to portray walking up Bray Head. The story began with us climbing up the hill (some very good tom-tom playing!), followed by seeing the flowers at the top of the hill (fantastically played by three girls on a keyboard, with a D major chord spanning some five octaves!), and amongst other things hearing the birds singing (the group doing the birds were fabulous, and were really listening and "talking" to each other on their penny whistles. By the end of the second workshop Bobby and I were totally exhausted! After a meeting at Wicklow County Council, we made our move back to the airport, and took off back to the U.K. It had been a fantastic week and we have both decided we would like to do many more workshops in the future!

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