Video Information

• Choir: MidAtlantic Chamber Choir
• Piece: "Anthony O'Daly"
• Composer:  Samuel Barber
• Conductor:  Jason C. Tramm
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: A cappella, Classical, Contemporary
• The second piece in Samuel Barber's Reincarnations, Op. 16
  
  Anthony O’Daly was a member of the Whiteboys, a group that resisted encroachments on peasants’ rights to their land with a mixture of rent strikes and violence. In 1820, Daly was wr...  moreThe second piece in Samuel Barber's Reincarnations, Op. 16
  
  Anthony O’Daly was a member of the Whiteboys, a group that resisted encroachments on peasants’ rights to their land with a mixture of rent strikes and violence. In 1820, Daly was wrongfully accused of shooting at a local landowner and condemned to hang. Although the local population acclaimed him as a hero and attempted to help him escape the gallows, he went quietly to his death.
  
  "Anthony! Since your limbs were laid out, the stars do not shine! The fish leap, not out in the waves! On our meadows, the dew does not fall in the morn, for O’Daly is dead!"
  
  Barber’s song feels like a huge public outpouring of grief. It begins with the basses repeating Anthony’s name on a drone whilst the upper voices sing a keening melody, and the piece builds to hysteria as the sopranos and altos take over the chanted name. There are also suggestions that Raftery’s poem is not a lament but a traditional poet’s curse, calling down retribution in response to Raftery’s outrage at Daly’s execution.
  
  MidAtlantic Chamber Choir Personnel:
  Jason C. Tramm, Conductor
  
  Soprano
  Paige Porter
  Veronica Shea Salkin
  Samantha Ferrara
  Hillary Baboukis
  
  Alto
  Kimberlee Korzelius
  Sophia Mortensen
  Irene Lyristakis
  
  Tenor
  Rider Foster
  Zachary Morehouse
  Jose Daniel Mojica
  Charles Bryan
  Kevin Courtemanche
  
  Bass
  Christian Arencibia
  Peter Lamendola
  Devin McGuire
  Skyler Klein
  
  Video/Audio Engineering: Quinton Tramm
  David Winkler, Producer
  Recorded: June 4, 2022
  Broadway Presbyterian Church (Manhattan)  less