Anna from Dublin
04-08-2007, 05:34 PM
Irish Writer, Deirdre Purcell - (not sure she sells much overseas but is well known here) - chose Janis Ian's At Seventeen as one of her 3 favorite pieces of music on a popular radio show here today. Interviewed about their life and work on David Norris's hour long "Sundays with Norris" (Newstalk Radio), each week's guest picks their 3 all-time favorite pieces of music. David Norris agreed it was a "smashing song".
Purcell didn't give much explanation for the choice except to say she heard it first when she was in her mid-twenties - a friend suggested it always reminded her of Deirdre; though Deirdre didn't really recognise the resemblance, she loved the song.
Interestingly the other 2 choices were: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing Battlehymn of the Republic and the slow movement from a Mozart Clarinet Concerto!
PS David Norris is a Professor of English at Trinity College, Dublin; the foremost authority on James Joyce; a Senator in the Irish Parliament and Ireland's most famous Gay man having taken the government to the European Court of human rights back in the 1980s to demand and ultimately win his case to have the illegality of homosexuality repealed.
Purcell didn't give much explanation for the choice except to say she heard it first when she was in her mid-twenties - a friend suggested it always reminded her of Deirdre; though Deirdre didn't really recognise the resemblance, she loved the song.
Interestingly the other 2 choices were: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing Battlehymn of the Republic and the slow movement from a Mozart Clarinet Concerto!
PS David Norris is a Professor of English at Trinity College, Dublin; the foremost authority on James Joyce; a Senator in the Irish Parliament and Ireland's most famous Gay man having taken the government to the European Court of human rights back in the 1980s to demand and ultimately win his case to have the illegality of homosexuality repealed.