Music
Music was important to Joyce. He himself was a tenor and sang frequently. His literature is replete with references to music, excerpts from songs and musical sections.
Most of our performances include music, sometimes traditional Irish music or a tenor accompanied by a pianist.
Among the music performed at HCE Players shows have been the following:
Most of our performances include music, sometimes traditional Irish music or a tenor accompanied by a pianist.
Among the music performed at HCE Players shows have been the following:
- Nuvoletta, words by James Joyce, set to music by Samuel Barber
- The Low Back'd Car (Samuel Lover)
- Love's Old Sweet Song (J.L. Malloy & G. Clifton Bingham)
- Oft in the Stilly Night (Sir John Stevenson & Thomas Moore)
- Silent, O Moyle (N. Cliford Page & Thomas Moore)
- Finnegan's Wake
- The Rocky Road to Dublin
- Killarney (Michael Balfe)
- The Groves of Blarney
- 'Tis Youth and Folly
- The Meeting of the Waters (Thomas Moore)
- The Last Rose of Summer (Thomas Moore)
- The Rising of the Moon
- The Wexford Carol
- I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls (Michael Balfe)
- Ed io non Tornerò (Ch'ella mi creda), from La Faniciulla del West (The Golden Girl of the West) by Giacomo Pucini - Joyce heard rowers near Trieste singing this and was inspired to write the poem, Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba, (published in his Pomes Pennyeach collection)
- Multiple traditional Irish tunes