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A Whole New Thing

Alice Echols

February/March 2010

Alice Echols tells the forgotten story of the daring, cross-racial experimentation that happened across rock, funk and disco during the 1970s.

The Master

Tony MacMahon

February/March 2010

'To have crossed his path as a listener was enriching; to have had him as a mentor was unforgettable,' writes Tony MacMahon of the uilleann piper Séamus Ennis. In New York and Dublin in the 1960s, MacMahon lived with, played with and learned from Ennis, and here he recalls some of the rituals and skills of the artist that made him unique.

The Musical Priest

Ciaran Carson

February/March 2010

He was a cantankerous eccentric who stressed that the Irish language and music were inseparable. Richard Henebry should not be forgotten, writes Ciaran Carson

Rethinking Opera

Christopher Fox

February/March 2010

If we want new opera to relate to our twenty-first century experience, we must return to first principles, says Christopher Fox

The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson

Peter Rosser

February/March 2010

The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson, Edited by Mark Fisher, Zero Books, Hampshire, England  

Obair le Déanamh

Breandán Ó hEaghra

February/March 2010

Breandán Ó hEaghra hears the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland in New York

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