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When form was blown open John McLachlan 'Open form', Luigi Nono and Morton Feldman.
Glimpses of the Fuller Picture Dermot McLaughlin 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' Barra Boydell A review of Richard Pine's book Music and Broadcasting in Ireland.
Live Reviews: Horizons – Elaine Agnew Jacqui McIntosh 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: Tudo Bem Live Reviews: Tudo Bem Toner Quinn Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow, 20 January 2006
Live Reviews: Temple Bar Trad 2006, Festival Concerts – Thursday & Friday Toner Quinn 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...
Live Reviews: Remote Viewing Workshop #9 Paul Watts The Boom Boom Room, Dublin28 January 2006The Remote Viewing Workshops are a series of monthly nights organised by Wire Horizon, a Dublin-based collective of musicians and promoters (www.wirehorizon.com). They take place in the Boom Boom Room, one of the better...
Live Reviews: Mike Nielsen and Louis Winsberg Stephen McFarlane Alliance Française, Dublin, 3 February 2006 As part of a drive to promote leading figures in Irish jazz, 2006 sees the Improvised Music Company running a series of concerts that feature an Irish musician performing in a complimentary international setting....

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