A Distant Prospect – ISBN 9780987435101

Haydn

Harvest Time c. 1897, Irish Life Series, National Library of Ireland — Author Annette Young hears robins and cuckoos calling in Haydn’s “Fifths” String Quartet. She has cellist Lucy recalling her Irish childhood and the passing seasons while playing A Distant Prospect‘s climactic Chapter 50 concert: Autumn is celebrated with the races and the harvest; and the harvest months at home were […]

Autumn Harvest Time in Haydn’s Fifths String Quartet

April 2, 2014 in Haydn / Irish / Music by francis

The Haydn "Fifths" cake from Yvette at CakeyBakeyArt.com.au — Eamonn Keane, Irishman, educator and author, speaking at Sydney’s Gleebooks on 24 February 2013, affirmed the quintessentially Irish character at the heart of Annette Young’s powerful debut novel, A Distant Prospect. Deeply ingrained in the Irish psyche, he said, we find music, a strong sense of the transcendentals – truth, […]

Quintessentially Irish! Eamonn Keane and Acacia Quartet at Sydney launch

February 25, 2013 in Borodin / Events / Haydn / Music by francis

Sue-Ellen Paulsen, Principal Cello, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra — For the latest events, see http://www.facebook.com/ADistantProspect/events Hobart Launch Tue 12 Feb 5:30pm for 6 The Hobart Book Shop 22 Salamanca Square Hobart Tasmania Join Sue-Ellen Paulsen, Principal Cello, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Annette Young for a fun filled, musical launch of A Distant Prospect, the heart-wrenching tale of a string […]

February Events : Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney

January 8, 2013 in Borodin / Events / Haydn by francis

Classical music, as encountered in 1910 Vienna by characters in A Distant Prospect, owes nearly everything to four composers who worked in that city over a century earlier. The First Viennese School comprised Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, who all composed in Vienna in the latter 1700s, and were even known to […]

Vienna and classical music

December 24, 2012 in Beethoven / Haydn / Music / Vienna by francis