Evelyn Grant and the Cork Pops Orchestra to Perform at City Hall, March 4

By: Feb. 25, 2015
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Evelyn Grant and the Cork Pops Orchestra look forward to entertaining Primary and Post Primary school audiences and their teachers in City Hall, Cork, March 4th at 10am and 12 noon for this year's Cork Pops Orchestra Spring Concerts for Schools Series.

The Cork Pops Orchestra and their conductor Evelyn Grant celebrate 25 years in show business this year. The orchestra was founded for the occasion of the 'Tall Ships' visit to Cork in 1991, and has entertained audiences in concert halls, cathedrals, open air festivals and Tea Dance Parties with artists ranging from Sir James Galway to Tommy Flemming. This gang have never let anything get in the way of a good party! They have played for countless fund raising balls playing a range of music from Strauss to Sinatra and Operatic Favourites to Folk.

They are joined this year by Keith Hanley the winner of 'The Voice' (2013). Keith will sing 'Let it Go', 'Happy' and 'All about that Bass'.

The orchestra will explore the 'blurred boundary between fine arts and and media arts'in a collaboration with DJ Dashka who combines old and new technologies in his work.

Dashka is an award-winning music producer, composer,DJ and instrumentalist from Cork. His productions have been signed to the biggest global record labels, and he has performed DJ sets as far afield as Miami, Ibiza and Dubai.

Dashka also composes music for film, and is currently completing the score for an Irish feature film due for completion in March 2015. He presents a weekly 3 hour specialist radio show on Spin Southwest, and was awarded a Masters in Music & Technology from Cork School of Music last year. www.djdashka.com

The programme is entitled 'Blockbuster Classics -- Music from the Movies'.

It contains some of the great film scores. (Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings); some great classical music used in film (Verdi, Mozart); and some great 'classics' of the world of film (The Sound of Music, Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney.) As always, we encourage audience participation in singing (Happy; Let it go; Edelweiss;), and in tin-whistle playing (Titanic's My heart will go on; Edelweiss). Our focus this year is on listening, on developing the ability to separate sound and vision in an increasingly visual and multi-media world.

On our web-site www.corkpops.ie, you will find links to exciting Youtube video clips relevant to the concert material. You will also find links to last year's concert programme and to some of our favourite websites explaining the instruments of the orchestra, and general information about the basic elements of music.

"We are passionate about sharing the great music of the orchestral repertoire with a new audience of young people and we hope that these concerts will be an inspiring experience and one that will provide material for teachers to develop in the class-room."

For more information, visit www.corkpops.ie/site/concerts-schools.



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