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Recent Publications in Contemporary Music
Listings from the Contemporary Music CentreContinued from JMI May-June 2005NEW WORKS RECEIVED, MAY-JUNE 2005Alcorn, Michael, Synapse [2002], 3333 4331 3 perc pf str, live electronics. Ball, Derek, Mettre de l'ambiance, fl cl vc; Voilà, va-solo,...
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Gerald Barry's new opera.
Music, Ideas and History
Barra Ó Séaghdha reviews The Progress of Music in Ireland, a wide-ranging new book of essays by Harry White on the relationship between music, cultural history and musicology in Ireland.
New Music News
The Arts Council has announced that Graham Devlin Associates will conduct a review of supports to contemporary music in Ireland and make recommendations for strategic development. The research objectives are: to appraise Arts Council policy and funding...
Banners, Turf and Liquefied Gas
New recordings and writings by Tommy Sands, Gerry O'Connor, Harry Bradley, Paul O'Shaughnessy and Paul Brock. 
‘Because it's our own’: Breandán Breathnach 1912-85
Uilleann piper, writer, publisher, organiser, and one of the great music collectors, Breandán Breathnach’s name is known throughout the world of Irish traditional music for his five volumes of Ceol Rince na hÉireann as well as for his wide range of projects and publications. Nicholas Carolan, Director of the Irish Traditional Music Archive, recalls the life and work of this seminal figure who died in 1985.
Recent Publications in Irish Traditional Music
Listings from the Irish Traditional Music ArchiveContinued from JMI Mar-Apr 2005CDS PUBLISHED 2005Burke, Kevin, and others as Celtic Fiddle Festival, fiddles, guitar, Play on…, Green Linnet GLCD1230Chieftains, The, instrumental & vocal group, Live...
Recent Publications in Contemporary Music
Listings from the Contemporary Music CentreContinued from JMI Mar-Apr 2005NEW WORKS RECEIVED, MAR–APR 2005Ball, Derek, Struggling through Strangled Strata of Strident Strangeness [2003 rev. 2004], vn, ob, vc, pf [4 hands]. Clarke, Rhona, Where the Clouds...
The Artist's Voice
The Sligo New Music Festival and a composer's voice.