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Once a communal activity, choral singing has been a high-risk one during the pandemic
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New Music Dublin manages to kick up a storm
Michael Dervan: Against the odds, Defrosted event offered memorable performances
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Choirland, a collection of 15 pieces for unaccompanied choir, goes on tour
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From the scandalous opera by Thomas Adès to new work by Crash Ensemble
Orchestra funding should be ringfenced at RTE, says Martin
New Music Dublin festival director claims rumoured cutbacks would have trickle-down effect
‘I thought music college would be like Fame, with people hanging from chandeliers’
From his earliest days in a rock band to his years in music college, David Fennessy realised he would be composing music rather than performing the works of others
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Classical music: Playing outside the pit can broaden your horizons
Orchestra members fulfil vital extracurricular functions such as providing music education and road-testing new music
Does the Budget mark the end of austerity? Not for the arts
None of the Budget’s so-called feelgood factor reached the arts, which received no boost in funding
Michael Symmons Roberts: a religious poet in the secular age
Michael Symmons Roberts is at home in science as he is in scripture, as happy with the sensory world as with the transcendent – which makes his poetry all the stronger
The way to Wexford: a strange beauty behind the scenes at the opera
Attending rehearsals of a Massenet double bill ahead of the Wexford Festival Opera was a deja vu experience
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