Radar
The singer and flute player, last year's Gradam Ceoil Singer of
the Year, will speak at the University of Limerick at 7pm on Monday, 13
February.
'Whenever you sing a song, the first note comes out of silence,
and the last note, when you finish the song, falls back away down into silence
again. And they say that no matter how many tunes you play, no matter how many
songs you sing, there's no cure for silence.'
Principal Conductor Alan Buribayev will make his debut outside
Dublin with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, in a concert at the WIT
College Street Chapel in Waterford on 23 February at 8pm.
The filmmaker's film about last year's performances in the
Mitchelstown Caves, County Cork by Caoimhín ? Raghallaigh, Lisa Hannigan, Duke
Special and James Vincent McMorrow is to be premiered at the Cork Opera House
on Thursday, 16 February.
The eleventh book in the Irish Musical Studies series is
entitled Irish Musical Analysis. It seeks to highlight the broad range of work
that is being done by musicologists working in Ireland, or Irish musicologists
working abroad, within the sub-discipline of music analysis.
Pianist Rolf Hind opens Trinity College in Dublin's new Music
Composition Centre series of concerts on 9 February.
A free-of-charge singing workshop with Len Graham is the first
in a monthly series run by Inishowen Traditional Singers Circle with the
assistance of the Arts Council.
The Monday night Harcourt Sessions at the Harcourt Hotel, Dublin
2, are starting the 2012 season next week, 13 February, with a performance by
piper and Bothy Band original Paddy Keenan, joined by Eamonn de Barra (flute)
and James Reilly (guitar).
The Irish Chamber Orchestra will give the premiere of John
Kinsella's tenth symphony in University Concert Hall, Limerick on 9 February.
Based in Dartington College, Devon, the Mhararano Mbira Academy
will run courses in the mbira, an African instrument consisting of metal keys
mounted on a wooden soundboard.
Criticism
Madonna's new single seen in light of the tendency she has
displayed throughout her career for obsessive pursuit of the new.
Stephen Graham attends the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group's
premiere of Seán Clancy's Findetotenlieder and performances of Barry, Grisey
and Weir.
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