Na Píobairí Uilleann

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8 3 22 20120622 22 Nollaig MacCárthaigh know the structure already, it’s going to be an eight bar, eight bar and eight bar or similar, some set-dances have maybe twelve bars or fourteen bars or sixteen bars at the end but still it’s in the same genre, but this one was different. The Road to Lough Swilly was originally a solo pipes work commissioned by Na Píobairí Uil- leann. Holohan later rescored and extended the piece for pipes and string orchestra. Holohan has composed two other large scale works featuring the pipes and orchestra. The Mass of Fire (1990 rev. 1995) and The Lost Land (1996). In the original version of The Mass of Fire, Holohan featured a traditional music ensemble consisting of four singers, pipes, two flutes, concertina and bronze age horns, alongside a full orchestra and choir. The revised version omits the parts for the tradi- tional musicians. The Lost Land was first per- formed by Michael McGoldrick with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in Toronto in 1997. Unfor- tunately none of these significant works by Holohan have been commercially recorded. Moving into the 21st Century the pipes have thus far not been utilised to the same extent in orchestral works as they were in the late 20th Century. Micheál O’Suilleabhain’s 9/11 com- memoration piece Termon (2011), written for the award-winning young piper Pádraig Keane and the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s 2011 US tour, is the most recent addition to the canon. 2 Grimes, Jonathan: “An Interview with Michael Holo- han.” Contemporary Music Centre Website. 2004 ~ COMPETITION ~ PICTURE THAT!

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