The Here Comes Everybody Players
 The Here Comes Everybody Players 
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  • Past Performances
    • Lit Crawl Boston 2017
    • Lit Crawl Boston 2016
    • Music Poetry and Prose from Ireland
    • Passages from Finnegans Wake - MSA 17
    • Out of Bounds
    • Terminus, by Mark O'Rowe, September 2014
    • Bloomsday Festival 2014, Dublin
    • Crossroads - an Evening of Irish Theatre and Music >
      • Ithaca
      • Translations Act II, Scene 1
      • Love in Glass Jar
      • Penelope (Molly Bloom's Soliloquy)
    • Bloomsday Festival 2013, Dublin
    • Passages from Finnegans Wake - a free adaptation of the Theater
    • Framingham State University, Irish Literature Class
    • Bloomsday 2012, Boston
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Tony Keegan, percussion; Lidia Chang, flute & Sean Connor, fiddle frequently accompany HCE Players performances

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:
  • 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
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