Celtic Portraits Author:John Mock From the Preface: In 1988 and again in 1996, composer John Mock visited Ireland and took photographs of the country. In 1997, he "was given the opportunity by Green Hill to record a project of original compositions depicting the countryside of Ireland. I had written some of these pieces in previous years, but most were compose... more »d in the summer of 1997, specifically for this recording. It was then that I started planning my third trip to Ireland, I wanted to shoot better photographs of the places I had visited earlier and written music about, as well as find new inspiration
The combination of all of this became CELTIC PORTRAITS; musical composition and photography combined to give a "portrait" of Ireland, or perhaps it would be more honest to say a portrait of what my experience of Ireland has been so far.,« less