A Child of the Universe

Cór Linn
Cór na nÓg
Mary Amond O’Brien:, conductor (Cór na nÓg) 
Ciarán Kelly, conductor (Cór Linn)
Carole O’Connor, accompanist
Leinster String Quartet: 
Deirdre Reddy, Rachel Grimes, violins, Niamh Roche, viola, Aoife Dennedy, cello
Andreja Malír, harp

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Seán Doherty All the Things Magicians Do (text by C.S. Lewis)
Sue Furlong Peace Songs from County Wexford
Marian Ingoldsby Mol an Óige (World Premiere) (texts: Irish proverb, Emily Dickinson, commissioned by New Music Dublin)
Sue Furlong Mo Ghile Mear 
Ciarán Kelly / Carl Corcoran A Child of the Universe (World Premiere) (text by Max Ehrmann, commissioned by New Music Dublin)

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The NCH Youth Choirs return for their seventh consecutive New Music Dublin performance, including two world premieres commissioned for the Festival. 

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This year’s programme has young people as its focus, encouraging them, and their audience, to be true to themselves in an ever-changing world. Seán Doherty and Marian Ingoldsby’s pieces are light in style, yet thoughtful, while both choirs combine for A Child of the Universe, a setting of the moving Desiderata text by Max Ehrmann—now almost 100 years old but as relevant today as ever.