The GAA intends to play the Tommy Murphy Cup Final at Croke Park on 27 August as the curtain raiser to the second Bank of Ireland All Ireland football championship semi-final.
He created a stage-wide frieze in front of the house curtain for 11 of his puppeteers to animate the program's second work, Stravinsky's 1920 "Pulcinella" (here in its later suite form).
The Scot squeaked into the second spell of qualifying and will line up in 15th place as he draws the curtain down on a career that has spanned 15 seasons.