James Joyce’s The Dead
Tue 14 Jan - Wed 15 Jan 2025, 7:30pm£14.50 – £29 full price | £12 – £26.50 concessions
Running time: 110 minutes, plus interval
Presented by The Fourth Choir
Set at a New Year’s party in Dublin in 1907, James Joyce’s masterpiece, The Dead, was hailed by TS Eliot as one of the greatest short stories ever written. The story tells how a casual overhearing of an Irish folk song triggers memories so powerful that the dividing line between those who have died and those that remain becomes vanishingly thin.
London’s queer classical choir, the “excellent Fourth Choir” (The Observer) explores how unaccompanied singing can add layers of emotion to a powerful story. The music includes Irish folk songs, an exquisite Tudor Ave Maria, works by contemporary Irish composers, Áine Mallon and Rhona Clarke, and a new arrangement by The Fourth Choir’s Music Director, Jamie Powe, of Bid Adieu, the only known song for which Joyce wrote both the words and the melody. Plus wintry Christmas music by Joanna Marsh, Sarah MacDonald and Bo Holten.
Conductor Jamie Powe
Image: Night, Trinity Churchyard by Victoria Garland
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The Fourth Choir is crisply professional, intensely musical and warmly expressive…a glorious, moving evening.
The Reviews Hub ★★★★★At the Barbican, I heard the excellent Fourth Choir perform music across the centuries in My Beloved Man including moving extracts of love letters between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. The person next to me hadn't been to a classical concert before… the margins reach the centre.
Fiona Maddocks, the Observer
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