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Home Sweet Home: Classical Music Culture in Ireland, Britain & America Barra Ó Séaghdha Sparked by a recent book on musical life in America over the past two centuries – Joseph Horowitz’ Classical Music in America: A History of its Rise and Fall – Barra Ó Séaghdha considers the classical music experiences of the US and Britain – and what Ireland can learn from them.
Wild Air: The Music of Kevin Volans Wild Air: The Music of Kevin Volans Bob Gilmore 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 classical and world music charts. Interview by Bob Gilmore. Photos by Lucy Clarke.
Live Reviews: Cork Folk Festival Pat Ahern Cork Folk FestivalVarious venues, Cork City5-10 September 2006After last year’s lavish Capital of Culture edition, Cork Folk Festival 2006 presented a positively minimalist face to the world. Gone were the big concerts in the big venues. In their place,...
Live Reviews: Sean Carpio, Simon Jermyn and Joachim Badenhorst Barra Ó Séaghdha Sean Carpio, Simon Jermyn and Joachim BadenhorstSean Carpio’s front room14 September 2006It was the first evening of three on which drummer Sean Carpio and a varying selection of musical accomplices were due to play in his flat as part of the Drama Festival...
'Goldsmith on his Travels' 'Goldsmith on his Travels' Images from the Irish Traditional Music Archive A musically unreliable nineteenth-century mezzotint depicting the Longford poet, novelist and dramatist Oliver Goldsmith (1728–74) on the Continet. The engraving, by W. Greatbach, is of a painting by the noted English artist Edward Matthew Ward (1816–79).Goldmith...
The Art Of American Dissent Desmond Traynor Singing Out On Us Foreign Policy.
O'Leary the Levitator Barra Ó Séaghdha Recent work by Cork guitarist Mark O'Leary.
Chorus for Change Chorus for Change Michael McGlynn The time is right to look at choral music in Ireland as a whole and open up a debate concerning its future.
Réabhlóid Ealaíne na Gaillimhe Breandán Ó hEaghra Project '06: an alternative to the Galway Arts Festival.

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