TY - ADVS

T1 - Die verrückten mädchen von Mona

T2 - Commissions Concert & Beethoven Archduke Trio

A2 - ap Sion, Pwyll

N1 - Pwyll ap Siôn is a composer, musicologist and Professor of Music at Bangor University. His music has been performed by some of Wales’ foremost musicians, including Bryn Terfel, Llŷr Williams, Iwan Llewelyn-Jones and Elin Manahan Thomas. His community opera 'Gair ar Gnawd' was performed at Ffwrnes Theatre, Llanelli, in a production commissioned by Welsh National Opera to a libretto by Menna Elfyn in 2015. His song-cycle 'Chaotic Angels', a setting of poems by Gwyneth Lewis, was premiered by soprano Celine Forrest and the WNO orchestra under Lothar Koenigs at St. David’s Hall in 2016. He has also authored and edited several books and contributes regularly to Gramophone magazine.

PY - 2021/10/16

Y1 - 2021/10/16

N2 - Die verrückten mädchen von Mona ('The Crazy Maids of Mona') is a composition for Soprano and Piano Trio. It starts and ends by quoting from the sixth of Beethoven's Welsh Folksong arrangements ('The Fair Maids of Mona'). In-between these bookending moments the music undergoes several abrupt shifts in mood and atmosphere in order to ironically represent the many negative depictions of female characters in nineteenth century culture and fiction, as examined by Elaine Showalter and others in books such as 'The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830–1980.'

AB - Die verrückten mädchen von Mona ('The Crazy Maids of Mona') is a composition for Soprano and Piano Trio. It starts and ends by quoting from the sixth of Beethoven's Welsh Folksong arrangements ('The Fair Maids of Mona'). In-between these bookending moments the music undergoes several abrupt shifts in mood and atmosphere in order to ironically represent the many negative depictions of female characters in nineteenth century culture and fiction, as examined by Elaine Showalter and others in books such as 'The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830–1980.'

M3 - Composition

PB - Self-Published

CY - Bangor

Y2 - 16 October 2021 through 16 October 2021

ER -