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

The second workshop at the Glebe School, Wicklow


Our next workshop was at 9.30am in the Glebe School in Wicklow. We followed a similar format in this workshop, and created some wonderful pieces! After handing out the leaflets that I had prepared (which I've attached with this post) we began creating pieces about walking along the beach in Wicklow, depicting all the boats in the harbour with various percussion instruments, and one pupil did a fantastic flute solo (representing a swan swimming calmly over the water (the water being represented by glockenspiels, triangles, penny whistle tones and bells). Bobby's group also did a great performance, which including some acting (very convincing miming of walking up and down the beach).




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