<div dir="ltr"><div>_____________________________________</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>RAYMOND DEANE'S NOCTUARY</div><div><br></div><div>On 22 September 2013, “NOCTUARY,” by the Irish poet, novelist, and composer Raymond Deane, had its world premiere at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, Ireland. “NOCTUARY” is a 45 minute cycle of 12 pieces for piano, etc., commissioned by Hugh Tinney with funds from the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomairle Ealaíon. Hugh Tinney is one of the leading concert pianists in Ireland today.</div>
<div> </div><div><a href="http://www.raymonddeane.com">http://www.raymonddeane.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Now an effort is being made for ordinary people, grassroots people, rank-and-file people, to fund a CD recording of this work through <a href="http://FUNDIT.IE">FUNDIT.IE</a> ...</div>
<div> </div><div><a href="http://www.fundit.ie/project/noctuary-deanetinney-piano-music-cd">http://www.fundit.ie/project/noctuary-deanetinney-piano-music-cd</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/noctuary1">https://www.facebook.com/noctuary1</a></div>
<div> </div><div>A NOCTUARY is a nighttime diary, and these pieces by Raymond Deane evoke many and various images of the night, including Minerva's owl (which “takes flight as twilight falls”), the Versipel (a creature that turns its skin inside out, like a werewolf), the Mezzotint (from a famous ghost story by M.R. James), the “hitherandthithering waters of night” from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and the “night-blooming Cereus” (a cactus that supposedly flowers on only one night of the year).</div>
<div> </div><div>Raymond Deane is the DEAN of living (and innovative) Irish composers today. In January of this year he turned 60 and a number of events celebrating this occasion have taken place (or are still to take place) throughout Ireland, including concerts, seminars, and the premiere of his opera “The Alma Fetish” in Dublin's National Concert Hall.</div>
<div> </div><div><a href="http://www.cmc.ie/composers/composer.cfm?composerID=30">http://www.cmc.ie/composers/composer.cfm?composerID=30</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.dit.ie/conservatory/events/archive2013/musicofraymonddeane">http://www.dit.ie/conservatory/events/archive2013/musicofraymonddeane</a></div>
<div> </div><div>If you would like to help support this world premiere CD recording of “NOCTUARY” by Raymond Deane, please do so at ...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.fundit.ie/project/noctuary-deanetinney-piano-music-cd">http://www.fundit.ie/project/noctuary-deanetinney-piano-music-cd</a></div>
<div> </div><div>This fund-raising effort now seeks to go BEYOND the minimum !!</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>Séamas Cain</div><div><a href="http://www.priosma.net">http://www.priosma.net</a></div>
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