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Live Reviews: Roger Doyle, Cormac Breatnach and Martin Dunlea
Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, 29th September 2005
Live Reviews: Ian Wilson – Winter Finding
Friday 16 September saw the world premier of Ian Wilson’s Winter Finding by the National Symphony Orchestra in their usual Friday night NCH slot, under the direction of Gerhard Markson. The performance had been postponed from earlier in the year due...
Classic Ephemera
The fluffy halo of 'classical' music, what composers think, Symphony Sessions and a new work from Elaine Agnew.
A Short Obituary of Irish Pop
Once the pulse of youth, pop has now become repetitive and self-referential – the tedious soundtrack to a society that does not want to grow old.
The Art of Atmosphere
Masters of Tradition Festival 2005.
...traditional arts news...
Deis – Traditional Arts SchemeDeis is a new scheme established under the Arts Council’s Traditional Arts Initiative, 2005-2008. Deis is a proposal-based scheme which is aimed at encouraging and facilitating the traditional arts community to seek...
The Menacing & the Sublime
Composers' Choice 2005.
...some upcoming gigs...
• gigs start at 8pm unless specified otherwise10.11.05 Crash Ensemble & Gavin Friday, OReilly Theatre, Dublin 110.11.05 Mostly Modern, electro-acoustic music introduced by Siobhan Cleary, Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Foster Place, Dublin 2, 1:15pm10.11.05 Altan, St Brendan’s Church, Bantry, Co. Cork10.11.05 – 20.11.05 The Sionna Festival of Music & Dance, Irish World Academy of Music & Dance, University of Limerick10.11.05 ConTempo Quartet, Coole Park Visitors’ Centre, Gort11.11.05 Music for Galway Gala 25th Anniversary Concert, Cello Octet Conjunto Ibérico, Great Southern Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway 11.11.05 John Feeley (guitar) and William Dowdall (flute), Printing House, Trinity College, Dublin 2, 6:30pm12.11.05 The Stradivari Trio, Daghdha Space, St John’s Square Limerick12.11.05 Anáil Dé/Breath of God, Concert of World Sacred Music, St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick13.11.05 Nathan Berg Quartet, Pendulum@ JJ Smyths, Aungier St, Dublin 213.11.05 The Chieftains, University of Limerick Concert Hall13.11.05 Concorde, musical reflections from Japan, Shanghai, Korea, Malabar, National Gallery, Dublin 213.11.05 Mariza, Portugese fado, Vicar Street, Dublin 816.11.05 The Bad Plus, jazz/crossover, Sugar Club, Dublin 216.11.05 Gola – Gathering of Voices, traditional singers from across Asia and Europe, Daghdha Space, Limerick17.11.05 Mostly Modern, Dermot Dunne (accordion), Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Foster Place, Dublin 2, 1:15pm17.11.05 ECM 05 Autumn Cycle: Jon Balke’s Magnetic North Orchestra, Whelans, Wexford St., Dublin 217.11.05 Sean-Nós/Nua-Nós, traditional song/dance, Daghdha Space, Limerick17.11.05 ConTempo Quartet & poet Moya Cannon, Oranmore Library, Galway18.11.05 ‘Samara’ by Raymond Deane (premiere), RTÉ NSO, NCH; Galway 22.11; Limerick 23.11, Cork 24.11, Waterford 25.1118.11.05 Marzoug, pipe music from the Sahara, OReilly Theatre, Dublin 118.11.05 Arve Henrickson, jazz, The Chapel @ OReilly Theatre, Dublin 118.11.05 Supersilent, improv, The Sugar Club, Dublin 218.11.05 i&e, ‘a concert of improvised music’, Goethe Institut, Dublin 219.11.05 Flook, traditional, Stables, Limerick20.11.05 ConTempo Quartet, National Gallery, Dublin 220.11.05 Cormac Kenevey/Hugh Buckley, Pendulum @ JJ Smyths, Dublin 220.11.05 Arild Andersen, jazz, The Chapel @ OReilly Theatre, Dublin 125.11.05 Dónal Lunny and Friends, City Hall, Cork26.11.05 Michael McGoldrick, Dezi Donnelly, John Joe Kelly, Faranree Community Centre, Pophams Road, Cork27.11.05, 4.12.05 & 11.12.05 Grada,The Cobblestones, Dublin 7, 4:30pm27.11.05 ConTempo Quartet with Galway Baroque Singers, St. Patrick’s Church, Forster St., Galway27.11.05 ECM 05 Autumn Cycle: Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico, Vicar St., Dublin 827.11.05 Guilfoyle/Buckley/Guilfoyle, Pendulum @ JJ Smyths, Dublin 229.11.05 Premiere of new work by Rachel Holstead, Irish Baroque Orchestra with Gerry O’Connor (fiddle), St Fachtna’s Cathedral, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork1.12.05 Quartet No. 3 by Stephen Gardner, RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet, UCC;Callan, Co. Kilkenny 2.12; National Gallery of Ireland 4.12, 3.15pm; Harty Room, Queen’s University, Belfast 6.12, 7:30pm2.12.05 – 4.12.05 Sounds Electric ‘05, electro-acoustic festival, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare3.12.05 ConTempo Quartet with Máirtín O’Connor, Cathal Hayden and Garry Ó Briain, Town Hall Theatre, Galway4.12.05 Kristen Cornwell & Jeremy Sawkins, Pendulum @ JJ Smyths, D28.12.05 Seamus Begley and Tim Edey, St Brendan’s Church, Bantry, Co. Cork8.12.05 Mostly Modern, works by J. Wilson, Deane, Dwyer and Buckley, Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Foster Place, Dublin 2, 1:15pm8.12.05 Mornington Singers perform new and traditional Carols, Handel Courtyard, Fishamble Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 8, 6:30pm10.12. 05 Premiere of new work by Benjamin Dwyer, Cora Venus Lunny (violin) and Redmond O'Toole (guitar), Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow11.12.05 Daniel Jacobson's ZoiD, Pendulum @ JJ Smyths, Aungier St., Dublin 218.12.05 Phil Ware Quintet, Pendulum @ JJ Smyths, Aungier St, Dublin 2For inclusion in the January-February issue of JMI, e-mail your concert listings – preferably in the format above – to [email protected]