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St Onuphrius and Me (2007)

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Derek Ball

First performance: Concorde Ensemble, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 27 May 2007

Work Details

Category: chamber trio
Duration: 5
Instrumentation: Vn Cl Button Accordion

Programme Note

I can't deny it. The moment I saw Ribera's painting of St Onufri, a naked old man with a long untidy beard, living in a hole and striving painfully for a desideratum apparently so belied by the reality of his circumstances, I said to myself : that's me.

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