Aisling from Cass by Carmel Kelly

This track was played between Act I & Act II of KATS' production of "The Loves of Cass McGuire" in the Town Hall Theatre Galway in April 12-14 2018
The following comes from the programme of that production:

Cass McGuire is visited by her share of dreams, and Carmel clearly dreams too.
Aisling
(meaning dream – you will hear it between Acts I & II) is one of Carmel’s favourite pieces. She tells the story best herself… “I was asleep, dreaming, some time in the middle of a summer’s night: my parents were in the room with me, and my mother seemed to be singing this beautiful air. I awoke, the melody turning in my head, and I thought: I must write that down in the morning. However, the tune had other ideas as it wouldn’t let me sleep, so I stumbled downstairs to my piano and with half-opened eyes I scribbled the notes down hastily…” The next morning, when she “properly” awoke, Carmel couldn’t remember the tune at all, and wondered if everything was a dream. But, remarkably, when she got to her piano, there it was – every note written quite precisely! It was a lesson to herself to listen carefully, and act immediately when that ever happened again … and it has … in fact a good few of her tunes have been composed that way since – and she doesn’t fight the desire to stay in bed until morning anymore!

Pianist, composer and music teacher based in Galway, Ireland.

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