{"title":"Sheet music composed by Donnacha Dennehy (1970-)","description":"Donnacha Dennehy (1970-) is a composer from Ireland. 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Commissioned by Dún Laoghaire Summer Organ Concerts with funds from the Arts Council of Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"G. 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But gradually chorales emerge from these whirling maelstroms of heightened anxiety, like mists emanating from storm patterns. The piece unfolds almost in breaths which move from a position of heightened tension (in the upper chest) to a deeper oscillation in the diaphragm. Yet even as the chorale slowly evolves there is a sense of yearning. We can wish the world to be a certain way, but we are also affected by our path through life. 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I first came to America as a grad student at the urging of my principal professor at Trinity College Dublin, who was simply mad about America and American culture. This deeply encouraging, erudite, kindly, intellectual professor, with a greater passion for American ideals than anyone I have ever known, came from Iran. Anyway, he was right. America inspired — and inspires — me like nowhere else. So much so that I'm back again, now living here after spending a considerable amount of intervening time in Europe, mainly in my native Dublin. When I think of what makes America such a vital and inspiring place, I think of people like Bob Hurwitz, someone who follows his instincts and passions, someone who is deeply curious about not only the massive variety of music, but also the whole world of culture around him. I hope we'll all be fine in the end because of this spirit, as long as we keep our wits about us, and confront broad slogans with detail. Well, I dread to think of other possible outcomes, and in truth, my heart goes out especially to immigrants in much less fortunate positions than I'm in. This little piece in honor of Bob is a kind of twinkling paean to detail. I hope that I've not made it too difficult for him to play it one day himself, and I'm deeply thankful to Timo Andres for playing it in its premiere performance at BAM.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Donnacha Dennehy, February 2017\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Music Sales America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43478896279631,"sku":"GSP57274SCO","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0900\/1828\/files\/c2ae4418ffad86e91ecf34f608340210.webp?v=1754593982"},{"product_id":"dennehy-concertina-schirmer","title":"Dennehy: Concertina","description":"\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComposer\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003ca href=\"\/ja\/collections\/donnacha-dennehy\"\u003eDonnacha Dennehy (1970-)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Score \u0026amp; Set of Parts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong class=\"original-instrumentation-title\"\u003eInstrumentation\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"original-instrumentation\"\u003eCello, Violin, Clarinet, Flute\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWork\u003c\/strong\u003e: Concertina (2023)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"binding hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-width\"\u003e8.9\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan class=\"book-length\"\u003e12.0\u003c\/span\u003e inches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"book-pages hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e: None\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c!-- split --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"one-half columns\"\u003e \u003ch4\u003eDescription\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"feature_divider\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor fl(afl), cl(bcl), vn, vc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eComposer note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe concertina, with its expanding and contracting bellows, seems like an apt metaphor for the way this piece works. in fact, I thought of the name very early on, and this oscillating motion of filling out and squeezing in influences the piece on every level, from the pattern through the metrically shifting phrases to the larger shape. It was a joy to write this piece for the wonderfully focussed players of Hub New Music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Donnacha Dennehy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"G. 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Perhaps inspired by the fact that the original hymn for \u003cem\u003eAmerica the Beautiful\u003c\/em\u003e was composed in New Jersey, I sought a way into this piece by reflecting on my own ever-deepening personal connections with the country as an immigrant who came here for good when I was well and truly in the midst of my adult life. I never — ever — expected to end up in New Jersey one day. It kind of happened by accident. But now it is completely tied up with the childhoods of my children. They are as much New Jerseyan as they are Irish or anything else, and my daughter especially so, as she was born here too. They have an attachment to the place, and already my thinking of them is suffused with the memories of passed and passing New Jersey summers, a kind of feeling of summer that does not really exist in Ireland. Maybe everything I write has this sort of existential bittersweet edge to it, but here it passes quite beautifully for the most part, like a fading Polaroid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Donnacha Dennehy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"G. 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