James Tenney's In a large, open space was performed at #OccupyBerlin last weekend.
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CRITICISM
ANNA MURRAY
This year's Hard Working Class Heroes festival inadvertently made a clear division between better- and lesser-known acts. The result was that some of the most interesting bands struggled to draw an audience, writes Anna Murray.
GEORGE RAFAEL
Was Gustav Mahler the most influential composer of the last 150 years? Two recent books by the journalist and broadcaster Norman Lebrecht claim as much; George Rafael, though, feels the question of Mahler's influence is more personal.
NEWS
Recent Traditional Fiddle Recordings
Recent CDs from Gerry Harrington, MacDara ? Raghallaigh, and Derek McGinley and Tara Connaghan present unaccompanied fiddle playing in different manners. Read more?
Choral Music Seminar in Limerick
The workshop and seminar is for students, teachers, singers, conductors and anyone interested in the field of choral music. Read more?
The second part of Oireachtas na Gaeilge, the main Irish-language festival of the year, starts this week in Killarney. Read more?
Music Generation Opportunities in Louth, Mayo and Sligo
The three selected counties from the first round of Music Generation funding are advertising for music tutors in instrumental and vocal disciplines to teach young people of a range of ages, from pre-school to eighteen years old. Read more?
BCMG Apprentice Composer in Residence Call
The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, a leading British new music ensemble, run a year-long annual apprenticeship scheme for composers early in their career. The deadline for applications for the 2012 apprentice composer in residence position is 4 November. Read more?
OKO, Thought-Fox, Umbra and Zoiband will each perform a stylistically diverse set in the latest instalment of Whirligig, a series of concerts that has thus far presented a mixture of acoustic improvisation and traditional jazz. Read more?
Doerthe Maria Sandmann Concert in Galway
Berlin-based soprano Doerthe Maria Sandmann will perform at the Cube theatre in the National University of Ireland, Galway, on 3 November. The concert is part of the Arts in Action initiative. Read more?
Quantified Self Exhibition at the LAB
The exhibition continues until 8 December and features new work by artists Michelle Browne, Cliona Harmey, Saoirse Higgins and Bea McMahon in collaboration with Shimmer Research, developers of wearable sensors with applications to kinematic and biometric data. Read more?
James Tenney Performance at #OccupyBerlin
A group calling itself ?the initiative' issued an open invitation to musicians and others to collaborate in a performance of James Tenney's indeterminate composition In a large, open space, on Saturday, 29 October, in Berlin in front of the Reichstag/Bundestag. Read more?
Traditional Music November Gigs
Traditional music concerts in November include Dublin's Liffy Banks Sessions featuring, among others, Maighréad and Tríona Ni Dhomhnaill, and the Junctions series in Cork with Jean-Michel Veillon, Neil Yates, Tyler Duncan, Mel Mercier, Dónal Lunny, Dónal O'Connor, Buille and Karan Casey. Read more?
Music Network Recording Scheme Results
The Music Recording Scheme was set up to provide support for professional performers and composers in Ireland through awarding funding for music recording. The scheme was open to composers and performers working in any genre of music wishing to make a recording that would be unlikely to be commercially viable without grant aid. Read more?
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Mentoring Scheme
The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra's Mentoring Scheme is designed to offer advanced third level instrumental students the chance to audition, rehearse and perform with the orchestra and also with prominent conductors and soloists. This year's successful applicants will perform with the orchestra on 4 November. Read more?
Linenhall Celebrates Local Music Making
Filmmaker Myles O'Reilly, was commissioned by the Linenhall Arts Centre to document the work of violin-maker Graham Wright, bow-maker Gary Leahy, mandolin- and guitar-maker Brian Lofthouse, and uilleann pipes-maker John Butler. Read more?
Thursday, 3 November will see Redneck Manifesto and Somadrone perform at the Dublin venue. Read more?
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