{"id":107953,"date":"2019-08-29T16:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/29\/dennehy-the-hunger-review-compelling-operatic-song-cycle-of-irish-famine\/"},"modified":"2019-08-29T16:00:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T14:00:58","slug":"dennehy-the-hunger-review-compelling-operatic-song-cycle-of-irish-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=107953","title":{"rendered":"Dennehy: The Hunger review \u2013  compelling operatic song cycle of Irish famine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Nonesuch)Manley\/\u00d3 Lion\u00e1ird\/Alarm Will Sound\/PiersonDonnacha Dennehy\u2019s \u2018docu-cantata\u2019 fuses his minimalist style with traditional Irish singing and a soprano voice Eight years ago, Nonesuch released a disc of Donnacha Dennehy\u2019s music that included the remarkable Gr\u00e1 agus B\u00e1s, from 2007, in which the highly decorated, unaccompanied vocal lines of the Gaelic se\u00e1n nos song tradition were fused with Dennehy\u2019s own musical language, rooted in minimalism and spectralism. That integration of two utterly distinct musical worlds seemed to unlock a new directness in the composer\u2019s work, as if the Irish element was the missing piece in his musical armoury, and though there are not many traces of it in the two more conventional operas that Dennehy went on to compose with playwright Enda Walsh, The Last Hotel and The Second Violinist, it\u2019s to the fore again in The Hunger. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2019\/aug\/29\/dennehy-the-hunger-review-compelling-operatic-song-cycle-of-irish-famine\" target=\"_blank\">Dennehy: The Hunger review \u2013  compelling operatic song cycle of Irish famine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Nonesuch)Manley\/\u00d3 Lion\u00e1ird\/Alarm Will Sound\/PiersonDonnacha Dennehy\u2019s \u2018docu-cantata\u2019 fuses his minimalist style with traditional Irish singing and a soprano voice Eight years ago, Nonesuch released a disc of Donnacha Dennehy\u2019s music that included the remarkable Gr\u00e1 agus B\u00e1s, from 2007, in which the highly decorated, unaccompanied vocal lines of the Gaelic se\u00e1n [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}