ST. PATRICK’S MIXTAPE

It pains me not to be there with you all today. I love programming for holidays, and St. Patrick’s Day is one of my favorites. Undoubtedly, I’ll be spinning wall-to-wall St. Patrick’s music at home. As a way of sharing some of it with you, here are some links to just a few of my favorites. You may be puzzled by the inclusion of composers like Handel, Beethoven, and Frank Martin, but everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day! A hoist of my Irish coffee to you!

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, “Irish Rhapsody No. 5”

Sir Hamilton Harty, “Three Miniatures for Oboe and Piano”

Edward Joseph Collins, Irish Rhapsody “Hibernia”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XykGEnuhiwc

Beethoven, “Irish Folk Songs’ (with Robert White, Ani Kafavian, Yo-Yo Ma, and Samuel Sanders):

I. “The Pulse of an Irishman”

II. “The Kiss, Dear Maid, Thy Lip Has Left”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWhGmLXcHa8

III. “Come Draw We Round the Cheerful Ring”

Frank Martin, “Piano Trio on Irish Folk Tunes” (Martin was Swiss)

Sir Arthur Sullivan, “Irish Symphony”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzGMyQugBo8

Sir Arnold Bax, “The Garden of Fand”

Samuel Barber, “Reincarnations” (on texts by James Stephens)

Ben Johnston, String Quartet No. 10 (a microtonal piece that teases a tune that – spoiler altert – blossoms into “Danny Boy!”)

Henry Cowell, “Two Bits for Flute and Piano”:

I. A Tuneful Bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bswlYBNt20

II. A Blarneying Bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Sp6UVY3qA

Ina Boyle, Symphony No. 1 “Glencree” (a pupil of Vaughan Williams)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR3MF7wkBlI

Joan Trimble, “Suite for Strings”

John McCormack sings:

I. “The Garden Where the Praties Grow”

II. “She Moved Thro’ the Fair”

III. “Off to Philadelphia”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVsFOtYmXFg

George Frideric Handel (arr. De Dannan), “The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba in Galway Bay”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB8NhXtgG_A

Hard to stop there, but I’ll want to get this posted. Sláinte!

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