Aug 2009
A Tale of Two Great Composers at the NCH
29 August 2023
Legendary Leipzig orchestra to play Mendelssohn and Mussorgsky
The National Concert Hall is opening its new season of symphony orchestra visits on the first Sunday in September with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra playing music by Mendelssohn to celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth. There are also two works by Mussorgsky, a composer as different from Mendelssohn as it is possible to be. Read More...
The National Concert Hall is opening its new season of symphony orchestra visits on the first Sunday in September with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra playing music by Mendelssohn to celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth. There are also two works by Mussorgsky, a composer as different from Mendelssohn as it is possible to be. Read More...
The Welcome Ghosts of Opera Past...
22 August 2023
The Wexford Festival line-up lives up to expectations
Some good news! The Wexford Festival Opera programme, as far as I am concerned, meets most of the good intentions put before us more than half a century ago by Tom Walsh. It gives us two works by 19th century Italian masters Gaetano Donizetti and Gioachino Rossini and in a way they are "discoveries". Read More...
Some good news! The Wexford Festival Opera programme, as far as I am concerned, meets most of the good intentions put before us more than half a century ago by Tom Walsh. It gives us two works by 19th century Italian masters Gaetano Donizetti and Gioachino Rossini and in a way they are "discoveries". Read More...
Re-Naming of Sligo Gallery is Absurd
15 August 2023
Nora Niland left a rich legacy -- so why not honour her?
When I opened the Sligo Art Gallery, nine years ago, I spoke at some length about the contribution Nora Niland had made to Sligo and of my own association with her from the late 1950s until her death in 1988. I regularly stayed near Strandhill, outside Sligo town, and took part in numerous Yeats Summer Schools, reporting on them in this newspaper and always emphasising the fact that there were other Yeatses in addition to William Butler Yeats. Read More...
When I opened the Sligo Art Gallery, nine years ago, I spoke at some length about the contribution Nora Niland had made to Sligo and of my own association with her from the late 1950s until her death in 1988. I regularly stayed near Strandhill, outside Sligo town, and took part in numerous Yeats Summer Schools, reporting on them in this newspaper and always emphasising the fact that there were other Yeatses in addition to William Butler Yeats. Read More...
