A dislike of modern music is understandable, says Bob Gilmore, but for him it is the challenge of the music he loves that makes it so special.
Bob Gilmore
Bob Gilmore is a musicologist and keyboard player born in Northern Ireland and presently teaching at Brunel University in London.
Heather O'Donnell/Responses to Ives
Heather O’Donnell, Responses to Ives, Mode Records (Mode 211)
Remembering Horatiu
He's Just Not That Into You
Music by Committee
All Collisions End in Static: the Music of Linda Buckley
Resonant Air: The Music of Michael Alcorn
don't do PERMISSION ISN'T
The Music of Jennifer Walshe
Improvising the Voice of America
Bob Gilmore discusses the upcoming RTÉ Living Music Festival with Artistic Director Ronan Guilfoyle.
Wild Air: the music of Kevin Volans
Originally from South Africa, Kevin Volans was a student of Stockhausen, a close friend of Morton Feldman, and a recording by the Kronos Quartet of his work White Man Sleeps, on Pieces of Africa, spent twenty-six weeks at the top of the cla
Letters: Sonorities '06
Bob Gilmore, Dartington, England, writes:I hardly recognised the 2006 Sonorities Festival from Michael Quinn’s review of it (‘(Hard)core Values’, July-August).
Missing Persons
In the latest of an occasional series of articles featuring Irish composers, Bob Gilmore interviews Ailís Ní Riain from Cork, who is currently living in Manchester.
Minimalism Schminimalism
Composition as Vandalism
The music of Donnacha Dennehy.
Unity of Being: The Music of Deirdre Gribbin
In the first of an occasional series of articles on living Irish composers, musicologist Bob Gilmore discusses the work of Deirdre Gribbin, native of Northern Ireland and presently Artistic Director of the London-based Society for the Promo












