October/November 2009
1 October 2009
Paddy Glackin Cérbh é Tommy Potts?The life and music of an extraordinary traditional fiddle player from the twentieth century is set to be explored in a new six-part series on the Irish-language channel TG4. Cérbh É?, which...
1 October 2009
Hauschka (a.k.a. Volker Bertelmann) is a German pianist and composer living in Dusseldorf. He writes extensively for pianos prepared with felt, rubber, aluminium, cork, tape, film and other materials. He is performing in New York, Toronto, Montreal, Athens, Firenze, Dublin and Cork this October and November. hauschka-net.de
1 October 2009
Stravinsky, emigré A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler’s Émigrés and Exiles in Southern California (Yale University Press) by Dorothy Lamb Crawford examines the gathering of sixteen performers, fourteen composers (including Stravinsky...
1 October 2009
Origin early 19th cent. (denoting the director of a musical institution): from French, entreprendre, ‘undertake’
1 October 2009
Barra Ó Séaghdha finds a disapproving account of paganism and the occult
1 October 2009
Mike Hanrahan, Cork, writes:While I welcome Bill Whelan’s commentary on the digital rights debacle (Aug-Sept), and indeed his call to arms to all concerned authors and composers, a part of me cannot but feel it’s all a little too late. However,...
1 October 2009
Brian Wilson’s haunted psychedelia and the sublime in popular music
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