Patrick Zuk
1 November 2004
In the second and final part of his article on Arnold Schoenberg, Patrick Zuk traces the development of the modernist composer’s social and political vision and explores how it influenced his music.
1 September 2004
Almost one hundred years have passed since the composition of the atonal works which were largely responsible for instigating musical modernism. in the first part of a two-part article, Patrick Zuk argues against claims made for Schoenberg’s historical position and the supposed implications of his innovations for the practice of other composers...
1 March 2004
Last November, JMI published an article by composer and pianist Patrick Zuk on the ‘rather chaotic state of contemporary composition and criticism’. A response by composer Ian Wilson was published in the Jan-Feb issue. Here, Patrick Zuk offers his response to Ian Wilson’s criticisms.
1 January 2004
Dear Editor,Fintan Vallely is quite right to regard The Keeper’s Recital as an important contribution to recent writing on music in Ireland. As Valley points out, it has stimulated much discussion, and if this is a measure of success, then it has undoubtedly...
1 November 2003
Contemporary music is still confined to a tiny elite and composing is largely buoyed up by arts council funding or the support of third-level institutions. Composer and pianist Patrick Zuk discusses some recently-published ideas on how we got here...
1 July 2003
In some recent writing on the history of music in Ireland, several Irish scholars have claimed that nationalist ideologies had a stultifying influence on the development of classical music here. These views have proved extremely controversial, and writers such as Barra ó Séaghdha and Patrick Zuk have challenged them in a number of articles and reviews. In this article, Patrick Zuk returns to the subject and outlines his principal reservations.
1 September 2002
Dear Editor,Given how pertinent the issue of nationalism is for all who are interested in Irish cultural life, a lively discussion in these pages on the subject would have been welcome in the wake of my recent review of Musical Constructions of Nationalism....
1 July 2002
Dear Editor,Ian Wilson rightly points out in his recent article (JMI, May-June 2002, pp. 5-11) that excessive vocal vibrato, apart from sounding ugly, militates against precision of execution and justness of intonation. However, the popular notion –...
1 May 2002
A preview of the Irish Youth Choir 21st Anniversary Concert.
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