Focus
A Tradition Flowering
Tradition in the midst of a flowering in Come West Along The Road, a DVD of traditional music from the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
The Sound of Discovery
The Festival de Jazz et de Free Music in Mulhouse, France.
Cultúr Bógus na Tíre Seo
Is the idea of Irish culture we promote abroad ‘bogus’?
When form was blown open
'Open form', Luigi Nono and Morton Feldman.
Glimpses of the Fuller Picture
Serenade by Mick McAuley and Winifred Horan and Paul Dooley's Music from the Robert ap Huw Manuscript.
'Octets have a habit of growing into symphony orchestras'
A review of Richard Pine's book Music and Broadcasting in Ireland.
Live Reviews: Horizons – Elaine Agnew
NCH, Dublin, 17 January 2006Lutoslawski – Musique Funèbre (á la mémoire de Béla Bartók); Agnew – Slasp; Kats-Chernin – Heaven is Closed; Agnew – Straight to the PointRTÉ National Symphony Orchestra;...
Live Reviews: Temple Bar Trad 2006, Festival Concerts – Thursday & Friday
Various venues, Temple Bar, Dublin, 26-29 January 2006Although Dublin has the greatest concentration of traditional musicians in the country, Temple Bar Trad, which took place over the last weekend in January, was the first broad-based festival of traditional...