<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi, all-<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here's the information on the free upcoming O'Carolan concert this coming Sunday afternoon. We were discussing this a few weeks back. I hope to see some of you there.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Tom</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="kmwttqpk n3t5jt4f l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq m8h3af8h gh25dzvf" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 28, 35); font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">Free tickets! Hope you can come:</div></div><div class="kmwttqpk n3t5jt4f l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq gh25dzvf jikcssrz" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 28, 35); font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">Concert celebrating Turlough O’Carolan</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">Sunday, October 9, 2022 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">846 <span style="font-family: inherit;" class=""><a tabindex="-1" style="color: rgb(140, 180, 255); cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" class=""></a></span>Front St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060</div></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: inherit; color: rgb(26, 28, 35); font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Tix here:</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://ucsctickets.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=1656" class="">https://ucsctickets.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=1656</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 28, 35); font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">Celebrating the 350th Birthday of TURLOUGH O'CAROLAN, Ireland’s Most Famous Composer</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 28, 35); font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">Linda Burman-Hall, Director, harpsichord </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 28, 35); font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">Shelley Phillips, harp, Baroque <span style="font-family: inherit;" class=""><a tabindex="-1" style="color: rgb(140, 180, 255); cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" class=""></a></span>oboes, folk flutes</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 28, 35); font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">William Coulter, guitar, bodhrán</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 28, 35); font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">Robin Petrie, hammered dulcimer</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 28, 35); font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">Deby Benton Grosjean, traditional fiddle, Baroque violin</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 28, 35); font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">John Weed, fiddle</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 28, 35); font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">Barry Phillips, ‘cello</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 28, 35); font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">A contemporary of J.S. Bach, Turlough O’Carolan (1670-1738) was Ireland’s most famous harper. Though blinded by smallpox at age 18, a patron gave him a harp, a horse and a guide, and he supported himself for 50 years as an itinerant harpist, becoming the most famous of all Celtic composers.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 28, 35); font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">O’Carolan composed in part by improvising, his works transcribed by others. The melodic lines that have come down often run through an ornate chordal harp texture. To play the tunes, musicians must decide suitable tempos, rhythms, harmonies, textures, and ornaments, and like O’Carolan, never repeat anything exactly. His music includes the most joyous tunes in the entire ‘6 Celtic Nations’ repertoire as well as airs of extraordinary melancholy.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 28, 35); font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">This project is supported by UCSC, in honor of Linda Burman-Hall’s award of an Edward A. Dickson Emerita Professorship (2019-2023). The performance will be eventually released as a CD recording. Thanks to UCSC Emeriti Associates, the Committee on Emeriti Relations, the Vice Chancellor, Chancellor, UCSC Endowments, and Music Department for support.</div></div></body></html>