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The NSO’s future is now secure, but why no outside expertise?
Will RTÉ, which has been killing off the orchestra, now be allowed to fill key positions?
Kilkenny Art Festival focusing on piano and chamber music of Brahms
Festival director Eugene Downes’ term to come to an end after five years at the helm
‘Shakespeare is for life, not just for the Leaving Cert’
Highlights of Kilkenny Arts Festival announced for the medieval city
Arts Council out of tune with needs of opera world
Kirkos Ensemble continues to stretch musical boundaries in new concert series
Fresh opportunities open up for Opera in Ireland
Arts Council is looking for applicants to provide ‘main-scale’ opera from 2018, as Opera Ireland finally gets something of a replacement
The unusual final year of Mozart’s life gets an airing in Kilkenny
The Mozart programme at Kilkenny Arts Festival featured compositions for mechanical organ and glass harmonica
A strange forum for Irish composers whose noses are out of joint
Dave Flynn’s Burren venture is an alternative to the massive 1916 centenary survey – but the fine print is bewildering
Kilkenny Arts Festival announces its 2016 programme
Stephen Rea, Loudon Wainwright III and Christian Blackshaw are among the highlights
Michael Dervan’s 2015: Lucky in our promoters who go with the gut
We are lucky to have a number of Irish promoters whose taste and empathy for the audience’s experience set them apart
The mysteries of Bach unwrapped at Kilkenny Arts Festival
Kilkenny’s 10-day immersion in Bach was a box-office success and provided a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
9 things we learned at Kilkenny Arts Festival
The Marble City was taken over by Saxon saxophonists, wearable sculptures, portrait painting and a focus on Bach
Kilkenny Arts Festival: Fast, fun and unpredictable
‘People are going on a journey - whether they come for a day or for the whole festival’
Kilkenny Arts Festival goes back to Bach and the shock of the old
Shakespeare, Dante and Bach feature in a programme that’s strong on the classics
Kilkenny Arts Festival brings Beethoven to life
New director Eugene Downes has put classical music back at the heart of the festival, and in fine style
Clouds in a church and other sound moves at Kilkenny Arts Festival
In the visual arts strand, there is evidence of joined-up thinking in the inclusion of abstract painter Marilyn Lerner, sonic glass work by Róisín de Buitléar and Karen Donnellan, and Max Streicher’s celestial cloud installation
Kilkenny Arts Festival aims to stretch legs as well as minds
The Marble City is bracing itself for mayhem and merriment, not to mention an estimated 45,000 visitors
Artists and audience asked to mix it up a little for overhauled Kilkenny festival
The Gloaming one of many artists in residence in Marble City
Kilkenny Arts Festival: A journey from Beethoven to The Gloaming
New festival director Eugene Downes gives a sneak preview of this year’s offerings
Funeral of actor Susan Fitzgerald told of her serenity facing death
Priest recalls an ‘extraordinary’ person
Funeral Mass celebrates ‘the beauty of Seamus Heaney...in his being’
He had many of the qualities of an ‘identikit portrait of the ideal Christian’
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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