Ó Riada, Seán. (1931-1971).

Mise Éire [I am Ireland]. Ceol le Seán Ó Riada, Ceolfhoireann Shiansach Radio Éireann. Ceol an Scannáin le Seán Ó Riada. [Music with Seán Ó Riada and the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra. Film Music by Seán Ó Riada].

Original, Vintage 7 inch Vinyl in original sleeve. Dublin, Gael Linn, [1960]. Excellent condition of Sleeve and Record with some clear signs of surfacewear / Sleeve VG + / Record VG +

Seán Ó Riada (1 August 1931 – 3 October 1971), was a composer and perhaps the single most influential figure in the revival of Irish traditional music during the 1960s. He became a household figure in Ireland through his participation in Ceoltóirí Chualann, compositions, writings and broadcasts on the topic.
Born John Reidy in Cork City, he was educated at St Finbarr’s College, Farranferris. He then transferred to St Munchin’s College in Limerick where he completed his Leaving Certificate in 1948. He played the violin, piano and organ and studied the Greek and Latin classics at University College Cork, studying with Aloys Fleischmann and graduating in 1952. While at College, Ó Riada was the auditor of the UCC Philosophical Society. In the same year he became assistant director for Radio Éireann. He married Ruth Coughlan in 1953; his daughter Liadh Ní Riada is a prominent Sinn Féin member who was elected to the European Parliament in 2014. During the evening he played piano with dance bands. In 1955 Ó Riada spent several months in France and consolidated his interest in techniques of musical modernism. On his return in July he became music director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin (until 1962), where he wrote, arranged and directed music for the small pit orchestra, also continuing his work in radio. Most of his original, modern orchestral compositions were also written in this time, which included his Nomos No. 1: Hercules Dux Ferrariae for string orchestra (1957), Nomos No. 4 for piano and orchestra (1958) and the Triptyche pour orchestre (1960) as well as an early version of his ambitious Nomos No. 2 for baritone solo, mixed choir and orchestra (1965). As his work with Ceoltóirí Chualann (see below) intensified, his engagement with the modern musical avantgarde decreased, but was never abandoned.
Ó Riada also composed and directed orchestral music for theatre and film, combining traditional Irish tunes and “sean-nós” (old style) songs in the classical tradition, similar to noted nationalist composers such as Dvorák (Czech), Bartók (Hungarian) and Ralph Vaughan Williams (English). In 1959 he scored a documentary film by George Morrison called Mise Éire (I am Ireland), about the founding of the Irish Republic. It has repeatedly been used in other documentaries and is available on CD, together with other film music – “Saoirse” (1960) and An Tine Bheo (The Living Fire). The recording is conducted by Ó Riada himself. Mise Éire brought him national acclaim and allowed him to start a series of programmes on Irish radio called Our Musical Heritage. Ó Riada told people that one should listen to sean-nós song either as a child would listen or as if they were songs from India. (Wikipedia)

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