The Stanford Society are delighted to announce their 2024 festival weekend is to be held in Dublin from 11–13 October 2024. The festival weekend will include a range of events including concerts, talks and a special symposium on Stanford and Music in Ireland. Hosted by the Royal Irish Academy of Music in association with the Society for Musicology in Ireland and Creative Arts Research Centre, Dundalk Institute of Technology, the symposium on Friday 11 October celebrates the 100th anniversary of Charles Villiers Stanford’s death in 2024.
Stanford’s father was one of the founding members of the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the symposium will consider musical life in Ireland during Stanford’s lifetime, his musical output and his contribution to the British Musical Renaissance. Other aspects of Stanford’s life and music will be explored during the public lectures on Saturday 12 October in St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street.
The full programme of events during the festival weekend is available on The Stanford Society website. They anticipate that the weekend will attract a wide audience and raise interest in Stanford, his contemporaries and pupils, and their historical context.
Join us on Sunday 13 October, for Choral Evensong at 15:30 – all are welcome!
- Motet: Beati Quorum
- Responses: The Stanford Responses (Dibble)
- Canticle: Stanford in G
- Anthem: Lighten our Darkness
- Hymn: Engelberg