After Yeats: four realisations by Merit Stephanos

Activity: Talk or presentation › Performance

Description

_After Yeats_ describes a collaboration between a performer, who declaims a Yeats poem in translation, self-accompanied by a plucked string instrument, and a composer, who works at a remove to observe and amplify the implications of the declamation. The conception is by William Brooks; Merit Stephanos performed four realisations, accompanying herself on the oud; these were composed, respectively, by Jason Emberton, Alcyona Mick, Nehad el Sayed, and Merit Ariane Stephanos. The performance was preceded by a brief introduction given by William Brooks.
Period8 Jul 2015
Event titleOn and off the page
Event typeConference
LocationGhent, BelgiumShow on map

Keywords

  • William Butler Yeats
  • composition
  • Chanting
  • Music
  • Translation
  • Text-setting

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