A Longford Legend

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Concert 2008: Based on the composers impressions of three poems found in a collection of 18th century Irish ballades, and is written as a tribute to the wonderful music of Grainger, Holst and Vaughan Williams

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Nepean Concert Band

Concert Band Community Band Nepean Ottawa Ontario

Nepean Concert Band (NCB) are Wednesday evenings, 7:30to 9:30 PM, at the Nepean Creative Arts Centre, 35 Stafford Road, Ottawa, Ontario. The NCB is always open to new members. The NCB is a provincially-registered non-profit organization and depends upon membership fees, concert revenue, and sponsorship from patrons in the public and private sectors, to pay for the necessities such as conductor's honorarium, rehearsal space rental, equipment maintenance and the purchase of quality concert band arrangements.

Song Info

Genre

Classical • Ensembles

Uploaded

June 18, 2015

Track Files

MP3

MP3 6.3 MB • 128 kbps • 6:51

Story behind the song

A Longford Legend op. 58 was commissioned by the Normal Community West High School Band, Normal, Illinois, Lisa Preston, director. The piece was written in 1996 and premiered in April of that year with the composer
conducting. It is based on the composer’s impressions of three poems found in a collection of 18th century Irish ballades, and is written as a tribute to the wonderful music of Grainger, Holst and Vaughan Williams.

Sheldon heard A Longford Legend, the poem that inspired the first movement of the suite, on “A Writer’s Almanac” broadcast on National Public Radio, read by Garrison Keillor. Taken with the homor and potential for
musical inspiration in the poem, he sought to find the author with the intent of writing a suite based on a variety of poems from the same venue. Through his research, he found that A Longford Legend was written by an anonymous author. He later found a collection of eighteenth century Irish street ballads by anonymous authors, and selected an additional two works Young Molly Brown and Killyburn Brae, from this collection to complete the instrumental suite.

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