377 - Sound Portrait Irish St Patrick's Day Celebration of Turlough O'Carolan with Martha Pineno
Mar 12, 2024
377-Sound Portrait Irish Celebration of Harpist Turlough O'Carolan. Today's presentation features solo oboe performing O'Carolan's melodies.
Just the facts from the
Encyclopaedia
Britannica:
Turlough O'Carolan, also
called Terence Carolan (born 1670, near Nobber, County Meath,
Ireland, died March 25th, 1738, Alderford, County Roscommon), one of the last Irish
harpist-composers and the only one whose songs survive in both
words and music in significant number
(about 220 of provable provenance are extant with an uncounted
number apocryphally attributed). The son of an
iron founder, O'Carolan became blind from smallpox at the age of
18. He was befriended by a Mrs. MacDermott-Roe, the wife of his father's employer, who apprenticed him
to a harper and supported him for the three years of his
training, then gave him money, a guide,
and a horse. As an itinerant harper, he
traveled widely in Ireland. Although never considered a master
performer, he was highly regarded as a composer of songs and improvised verse. His tunes appeared
widely in 18th-century collections.
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