In Handel's Day video

'In Handel's Day' Video complete. Above is a link to my YouTube videos. Enjoy!

Handel's Messiah

So, this post is all about George Frideric Handel. He was a German-English composer, who was born in the same year as Bach actually. He is remembered in Dublin for composing the Messiah. It was first performed in the New Music Hall in Fishamble Street Dublin, on 13 April 1742, with 26 boys and five men from the combined choirs of St. Patrick's and Christ's Church cathedrals participating, according to Wikipedia.

So, every year the Temple Bar Cultural Trust (Fishamble Street is considered the old area of Temple Bar) puts together a Handel's Day with festivities for young and old. I attended this event for The Liberty, to put something online for our viewers. You can view the above slideshow larger here. I will be posting a video either tomorrow or the next day. There was also a kids choir's performance, workshops, other musical events and a movie on the square.

This event was of Our Lady's Choral Society performing works of Handel's with Proinnsias O'Duinn conducting. This was the same street it was performed many years ago. It was actually a lovely day in Dublin. Only a light jacket required, if that. Later, I just lay in the grass at St. Patrick's park next to the cathedral and actually got some sun! Who would have thought in Dublin!

So, I have been neglecting the posting for a little bit. But will post everything that has happened in the past 2 weeks up very soon. Including photographs from my trip to Donegal with Molly, my roommate, her mother and her grandmother. The trip was fantastic and cannot wait to narrate the story with photographs. I also will put up more pictures of the Aran Islands, no doubt.