ReviewReviewed is the London Philharmonic Orchestra Masur performance at the National Concert Hall, DublinNCH, DublinSat Jan 22 2005 - 00:00
English National Opera goes IrishThe adventurous London company plans to launch its 2005-6 season with Gerald Barry's take on Fassbinder , reports Michael Dervan…Thu Oct 14 2004 - 01:00
Opera festival finds RTE costs prohibitiveThe chairman of Wexford Festival Opera, Mr Paul Hennessy, yesterday responded to criticism by the Musicians' Union of Ireland…Sat Oct 09 2004 - 01:00
Wexford festival to face protests about non-use of Irish musiciansThe Musicians Union of Ireland (MUI) is to repeat last year's public protest about Wexford Festival Opera's ongoing failure to…Fri Oct 08 2004 - 01:00
National centre plans to stop representing NI composersUpwards of 20 Northern Ireland composers are facing the loss of representation by the Dublin-based Contemporary Music Centre (…Wed Aug 25 2004 - 01:00
Take three directors . . .Reviewed: Madrigal '75/Cutts, Fleischmann Choir , CSMSO/Spratt Cork International Choral FestivalFri Apr 30 2004 - 01:00
Alfred Brendel: ‘I talk about the day I will have to stop’After more than 50 years in music Alfred Brendel is still one of the greatest pianistsTue Mar 09 2004 - 00:00
Pierre Boulez: ‘You try to find new material, it provokes the imagination’French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, one of the greatest musicians of our time, has died at 90. In this interview from 2004, Michael Dervan spoke to the eternal enfant terrible about pushing through sound barriersSat Feb 14 2004 - 00:00
High and low notes of a decidedly mixed bagMichael Dervan looks back on a year in music that delivered great successes from some but disappointments from othersTue Dec 16 2003 - 00:00
Protest over use of Belarus orchestra at opera festivalSweet song and discord were features of the glittering social and musical occasion that was the opening of the Wexford Festival…Fri Oct 17 2003 - 01:00
Stand up and face the musicUlster Orchestra's new chief executive, David Byers, is optimistic about the orchestral future, he tells Michael Dervan.Mon Sept 15 2003 - 01:00
Knowing the score'Improvisation rocks" was the message of Beyond The Score, Robert Levin's illustrated talk at Killaloe Music FestivalWed Jul 30 2003 - 01:00
The light and the heavyAs opera singer Barbara Bonney tells it, her career started almost by accident when she more or less had to sing for her supper…Sat Jun 14 2003 - 01:00
Radical revamp of music teaching urgedA radical revamp of music education at local level is called for in a report launched yesterdayThu Jun 12 2003 - 01:00
Opera festival 'innovative' despite cutsThe Tánaiste, Ms Harney, yesterday called Wexford Festival Opera "a fine example of cultural entrepreneurship" as she launched…Thu May 29 2003 - 01:00
ReviewHahn, SF Symphony, NCH, Dublin: John Adams's My Father Knew Charles Ives is a new piece, so new in fact that Thursday's NCH …Sat May 10 2003 - 01:00
Sligo, the perfect setting for subtlety of SciarrinoThe decision to compact the activities of Sligo New Music Festival into a single day was a sensible and rewarding oneTue Apr 01 2003 - 01:00
DIT head enters debate over the future of music educationThe president of the Dublin Institute of Technology, Dr Brendan Goldsmith, yesterday described the creation of an Irish Academy…Fri Feb 07 2003 - 00:00
Arts project will not get go-aheadThe project to establish an Irish Academy for the Performing Arts, as announced in 2000 by the then ministers for Education and…Thu Jan 30 2003 - 00:00
Funding crisis causes cancellation of spring operasOpera Ireland has cancelled its spring season at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin because it says there are inadequate promotional…Wed Jan 08 2003 - 00:00
Life of understatementVisual Arts/Aidan Dunne: Reviewed this week: Eithne Jordan at the Rubicon Gallery, Felim Egan at the Kerlin Gallery, Taffina…Fri Dec 06 2002 - 00:00
Kaleidoscopes for the earThe Ultima Festival of contemporary music in Oslo featured a rare opportunity to hear works of spectral music, writes Michael…Mon Oct 21 2002 - 01:00
RTE orchestra not to take up Helix residencyPlans have collapsed for the RTÉ Concert Orchestra to become orchestra-in-residence at the new €35 million Helix Centre, which…Tue Sept 17 2002 - 01:00
Meister or Monster?Whether he's an obsession or an object of revulsion, nobody is neutral about Richard WagnerWed Jul 31 2002 - 01:00
Wexford Festival's operas namedNext October's Wexford Festival will include more than 50 performances and for the second year will feature the National Philharmonic…Sat May 18 2002 - 01:00
Joshua Bell (hyperviolin), RTE Cor na nOg, NSO/Gerhard MarksonTuesday's Toy Symphony concert at the NCH was the fruit of collaboration between MIT Media Lab, the Ark cultural centre for children…Fri Apr 12 2002 - 01:00
The Crash Ensemble Project, DublinREVIEWS: The Irish Times reviews The Crash Ensemble , Earthquake Dance and St Matthew's Passion in today's paper.Tue Mar 26 2002 - 00:00
€1.378m for Opera IrelandOpera Ireland, the financially- troubled opera company, has been offered €1,378,700 above and beyond the amount identified in…Wed Mar 20 2002 - 00:00
NSO/Andre de Ridder National Concert HallBelfast composer Ian Wilson, subject of the latest concert in the National Symphony Orchestra's Horizons series, conducted by…Thu Mar 14 2002 - 00:00
Canzona, Orchestra of Saint Cecilia/Bla naid Murphy St Ann's Church, Dawson Street, DublinThe penultimate instalment of this year's offerings in the Orchestra of St Cecilia's marathon traversal of Bach's church cantatas…Tue Mar 05 2002 - 00:00
A concerted effortThe recent festival of music by the Second Viennese School had its moments, writes Michael DervanTue Feb 19 2002 - 00:00
Michael Collins (clarinet), Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra/Jβnos RollaChamber Symphony Op 110a - Shostakovich/BarshaiFri Dec 14 2001 - 00:00
Marieke Schneemann (flute), Bart Schneemann (oboe), Ulster Orchestra/George BenjaminL'Ascension - MessiaenThu Dec 13 2001 - 00:00
Finghin Collins (piano), Orchestra of St Cecilia/Howard ShelleySymphony No 1 - SchubertFri Nov 23 2001 - 00:00
