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- Front of NCH
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- Marin Alsop
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- Taken by me in NCH at the end of the fabulous concert
Last Saturday I traveled to Dublin for my first concert of my live music year, which runs from September to June.
I booked a hotel close by, the O’ Callaghan Hotel. Alas, the taxi I hopped into at the train station brought me to the wrong one! Apparently there are three O’Callaghan hotels in the city centre. So, following a second taxi journey, it cost me an extra €15 from hotel A to hotel B.
When I got to the NCH* I noticed there seemed to be a younger crowd than normal. The usual concert-going people are of an older generation; don’t get me wrong there were still quite a few, but less. Even more to my surprise, I didn’t spot anyone falling asleep during the concert – which happens a lot!
Anyway here is my review of the concert.
Programme:
Clarice Assad: Terra Brasilis Fantasia sobre o Hino Nacional Brasileiro
Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from ‘West Side Story’
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major
The American and now Irish** conductor Marin Alsop was, somewhat unusually, the second woman to take charge of a symphony orchestra at the NCH this weekend. Galway native Sinead Hayes made her debut with the NSO with a programme of Mozart on Friday evening.