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Live Reviews: Galway Early Music Festival: The Irish Consort / Red Priest
The Life and Times of Grace O’Malley, the 16th Century-Century Irish Pirate Queen Augustinian Church, Galway, 17 May 2007Pirates of the BaroqueSt Nicholas Collegiate Church, Galway, 18 May 2007 In spite of the Arts Council’s mind-numbingly culture-killing...
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How to compose in your own time
We might as well start by stating that this article will not provide any solution to the problem of how to compose in your own historical time. Like an academic character from a David Lodge novel it will instead, ‘merely seek to raise some interesting...
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Colour on all sides
A review of the recent RTÉ Living Music Festival which focused on jazz and the music of American composer John Adams.
Musical Texts of the Elites
Barra Ó Séaghdha finds much to debate in a recent work on music and Irish identity.