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Criticism
Reading the Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Ciaran Carson
reflects on the many ways traditional music has changed in recent decades, but
also how much it has stayed the same.
Radar
The
Scotland-based trio Lau, which has 'ignored what everyone presumed traditional
music audiences wanted to hear', is coming to Ireland for the first time later this
month.
The successful applicant will manage all aspects of the
orchestra's organisation, including finances, administration, operations,
development and marketing.
Dublin Orchestral Players and Mornington Singers Perform
Mozart's Requiem in Dublin on 10 March.
The RT? and Ulster Concert Orchestras collaborate in Belfast on
4 March as part of Music Nation.
A young Irish composer, Sebastian Adams, is through to the final
of the Sorodha International Composition Competition. The prize is awarded for
a composition written for solo violin.
Donnacha Dennehy's song cycle If He Died, What Then is based on
a first hand account of the Irish famine of the 1840s, and features Dawn Upshaw
as soloist.
The app, developed by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools
of Music, is designed to improve skills such as sight-reading and musical
memory.
A new suite of sea shanties from Shaun Davey, and a performance
by the recently re-formed Voice Squad are items that might be overlooked at the
National Concert Hall in March.
Rura is a five-piece band from the west of Scotland including
three BBC Radio Scotland ?Young Traditional Musician of The Year' finalists and
an All Ireland bodhr?n champion.
The quartet in residence is comprised of Mike Nielsen (guitar),
Sam Comerford (saxophone), Cormac O'Brien (bass) and James Mackin (drums).
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