Focus
The Who, What, Why, Where and When of Music and Ideas
Barra Ó Séaghdha looks back over the JMI's first three years and suggests possibilities for the future...
Must Schoenberg's Crisis be Ours Too?
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...
The Phonography of Roger Doyle
An introduction to a culture-jamming composer.
Ireland, Modernity and the Question of Definition
A reply to John Waters' article on the politics of debate which appeared in the last edition of JMI.
Hamelin : Ian Wilson & Lavinia Greenlaw
Music by Ian WilsonLibretto by Lavinia Greenlaw Opera Theatre Company; cond. David Brophy; dir. Gavin Quinn10 September 2003, Samuel Beckett Theatre, TCDThe story and music of this opera were very united, in how they developed, and in terms of their strengths...
Thwaite: Jürgen Simpson & Simon Doyle
Music by Jürgen Simpson / Libretto by Simon Doyle / Opera Theatre Company / Cond. Philip Walsh / Dir. Dan Zemmett / Project Theatre, 24 September 2003
CD Reviews: At It Again – John Carty
At it again, the whimsically titled new CD from multi-instrumentalist John Carty sees him this time eschewing banjo, flute and tenor guitar to instead confine his talents exclusively to the fiddle. On this recording he draws much of his repertoire from the...
CD Reviews: An Tobar Glé - Neil Mulligan
Neil Mulligan – An Tobar Glé– Shore Records SCD 1049One of the driving influences in the development of traditional music is the process of transmission. Maybe transmission is not always how it looks and feels at first hand – within...
The Politics of Debate
How discussion of culture and society is stymied