St Patrick's Day - A Musical Celebration

3/4/2011 10:22 AM EST

This annual celebration at St Martin-in-the-Fields, with its imaginative and atmospheric programme, will be a fun, magical and very Irish celebration performed by these fine musicians.

The programme includes Traditional Irish Melodies for Harp and String Orchestra by Ireland’s national composer the blind harpist Turlough O’Carolan, a performance of Julie Cooper’s Cariad, a Celtic lament for cello and strings and plenty of traditional Irish folk and classical music.


Programme

Thursday 17 March 2011
7.30pm
St Patrick’s Day – A Musical Celebration

O’Carolan – Traditional Irish Melodies for Harp and String Orchestra
T C Kelly – Suite of Irish Tunes for Strings
Honey – St Patrick’s Suite for Violin and Orchestra
Trad – ‘An Irish Blessing’ and songs from the heart of Ireland
Cooper – ‘Cariad’ for Cello and Strings

St Patrick’s Singers
Locrian Ensemble
Jean Kelly Harp
Dermot Crehan Violin
Justin Pearson Cello
Paul Honey Conductor

Tickets from £8 to £22 are available from St Martin-in-the-Fields Box Office on 020 7766 1100 or online at www.smitf.org.


NOTES TO EDITORS

St Martin-in-the-Fields, with over 350 concerts a year, is one of the busiest music venues in the country. Concerts draw visitors from all over the world attracted by St Martin’s superb acoustics, intimate yet impressive surroundings and outstanding musical standards. Concerts take place on some Tuesdays and every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7.30pm and include Early and Baroque Music, chamber and world music, song and piano recitals. St Martin-in-the-Fields is also a working parish church with a calendar of services, which on Wednesdays and Sundays are choral. The full programme of services and concert information can be found at www.smitf.org.