{"id":4192,"date":"2012-04-02T11:24:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T10:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2012-04-02T11:24:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T10:24:17","slug":"ulster-orchestra%e2%80%99s-clonard-easter-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2012\/04\/ulster-orchestra%e2%80%99s-clonard-easter-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster Orchestra\u2019s Clonard Easter Treat"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the clocks having gone forward and spring officially sprung, the Ulster Orchestra brings a touch of all four seasons tonight (Tuesday 3 April) with Vivaldi\u2019s Four Seasons, one of the most popular and well known pieces of music to Clonard Monastery in Baroque at Easter, a concert of timeless Baroque classics.<\/h2>\n
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Father Michael Murtagh, Rector of Clonard Monastery, with the Ulster Orchestra\u2019s Leader, Hungarian-born violinist Tam\u00e1s Kocsis and Principal Oboe Christopher Blake talking about Baroque at Easter, the UO\u2019s first Clonard concert in three years. The 3 April concert includes Vivaldi\u2019s masterpiece, the Four Seasons, one of the most popular and well-known pieces of music in a concert full of timeless Baroque classics. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Orchestra\u2019s Hungarian-born Leader, violinist Tam\u00e1s Kocsis is the soloist for the Four Seasons and directs the concert that also includes music by Bach, Purcell and Handel\u2019s uplifting Water Music.<\/p>\n

Looking forward to the concert Tam\u00e1s said, \u201cIt\u2019s has been a busy few days, as we performed Brahms\u2019 great Requiem in the Ulster Hall on Friday and was in Derry on Sunday for an education concert, but I am really looking to playing at this special venue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the Orchestra has played at Clonard before, this is my first time performing at the Monastery where I will also be playing the Bach Double Concerto with Chris Blake, our Principal Oboe player. He is a dear friend and a fantastic oboist, so I am sure we are going to have lots of fun performing this wonderful piece,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Four Seasons always presents a challenge, being very well known and very transparent. No wonder it’s popular with audiences and performers alike, it is a beautiful set of Concertos.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Performing live to 100,000 people each year in venues from Ulster Hall to Strabane\u2019s Leisure Centre, the National Concert Hall in Dublin to London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall, since its foundation in 1966 Northern Ireland\u2019s only professional orchestra has also played in many ecclesiastical venues from the cathedrals of Armagh to St Columb\u2019s Cathedral, Derry and St Anne\u2019s in Belfast.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the concert, Clonard\u2019s Rector, Father Michael Murtagh, said, \u201cThe Four Seasons is such a famous piece of music and written by a man who I recently discovered was himself ordained a priest.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am looking forward to the concert that comes, for many obvious reasons, at an incredibly special time for so many people being Holy Week. It is also our first Easter back in our newly restored church and the first time in three years that the Orchestra has played here and it\u2019s great to have them back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talking about the Bach Double Concerto, UO Principal Oboe Christopher Blake said, \u201cI have played this amazing concerto with the last two leaders of the Orchestra and am really looking forward to performing it with Tam\u00e1s, who is an extraordinary violinist.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need a lot of stamina for this peice because the music never stops which is unusual for a wind concerto. It is also a challenge to play in different places too, as the environment and acoustics differ from place to place, but we are all really looking forward to returning to Clonard,\u201d Christopher said.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the concert on 3 April at 8pm are still available from the Ulster Orchestra Box Office on 028 9023 9955 and ulsterorchestra.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the clocks having gone forward and spring officially sprung, the Ulster Orchestra brings a touch of all four seasons tonight (Tuesday 3 April) with Vivaldi\u2019s Four Seasons, one of the most popular and well known pieces of music to Clonard Monastery in Baroque at Easter, a concert of timeless Baroque classics. The Orchestra\u2019s Hungarian-born … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4195,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions\/4195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}