Screens Draw the Eye
Louth Contemporary Music Society presented the world premiere of Canadian composer Nicole Lizée’s ‘Spielberg Études’ at Drogheda Arts Festival on 4 May, as well as her ‘Hitchcock Études’ and ‘Kubrick Études’. Brendan Finan reviews the unique audio-visual works.
BRENDAN FINAN
Photo – Jenny Matthews
There’s a particular sensation when climbing the hill towards St Peter’s Church of Ireland for the contemporary music concert that takes place as part of Drogheda Arts Festival. It’s the May bank holiday, the first weekend evening that really feels like summer, still bright, and almost warm, in the lull between shops closing and pubs getting busy. There’s a private, almost tactile anticipation, as punters make their way up in ones and twos and threes; it feels like the only thing happening in the world.
The Drogheda Arts Festival contemporary music concert is, for me, fast becoming the marker of the beginning of summer, as well as an appetiser for the Louth Contemporary Music Festival in June. For a combination of intimacy and ambition and surprise, it’s the only show in town.
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