Philip Glass

The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan in Wexford; American conductor JoAnn Falletta at NCH

The composer on febrile 1960s New York, working day jobs into his 40s and the term ‘minimalism’

Bangers and Crash Percussion Group starts tour, teenage wunderkind Daniel Lozakovich

Beacon of enlightened new music programming at NCH in fog of nostalgia culture

Joyce DiDonato, Damon Albarn, Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson in wide-ranging line-up

Dev Hynes returns with a little help from his famous friends on another strong outing

Louth Contemporary Music Society’s Book of Hours Festival was unfailingly adventurous

The scientist’s fame led to sitcom appearances, biopics, and music about him

Review: Duncan Jones’s latest film is a nod his late father, David Bowie, but it feels weirdly threadbare. It’s not disastrous – just senseless and lacking a plot

The Festival of Great Music in Irish Houses plays fast and loose with its title but delivers music of calibre and quality

Exhibition shuffles briskly and entertainingly through more than 100 years of spirituality in art

Last weekend’s New Music festival finally delivered on its celebratory promise

Some astounding new Bowie facts have come to light over the last year

Kingdom are living through the Dublin golden years as they’ve never had to before

Aaron Brookner’s film Uncle Howard is about his late film-maker uncle – but it is also about Aids, a disappeared New York and the dangerous Burroughs

Michael Dervan: Two evenings of music and words as part of Ireland 2016 got me thinking about the links that were missed

Ronan’s theatre debut is with Ciarán Hinds and Ben Whishaw in a formidable production directed by Ivo van Hove

For their collaboration commemorating the Rising at the NCH, Colm Tóibín and Donnacha Dennehy have focused on the uneasy time when Casement and Conrad shared quarters in the Belgian colony

The author has transported ‘Don Giovanni’ to Dublin for the Opera Theatre Company

Composer was ‘a gentleman to all who were fortunate enough to cross his path’

As Johnny Marr once said: ‘There are musicians who are influenced by him that don’t realise it’

Classical music: The problem with HJ Lim’s in-your-face style is that, when nothing is normal, you can get to the point where nothing is abnormal either

Happily, the composer has got over his anxieties, and his second collaboration with Enda Walsh, ‘The Last Hotel’, is shaping up to be a non-stop 80-minute roller coaster ride

New books by Steve Conway, on Radio Caroline, Stuart David, on Belle and Sebastian, Wyndham Wallace, on Lee Hazlewood, and Philip Glass, on his life in the musical avant-garde

Classical Music round-up: Recitals by John O’Conor, Marino Formenti and Philip Glass ranged from the masterful to the radical

Why this year’s festival turned to the US for a curator is hard to fathom

In curating the What? . . . Wow festival, Lang is examining the legacy of his neighbourhood, and the 1960s New York scene that gave the world minimalism

The German composer clung to the same style throughout his career – do any modern counterparts keep the faith?

After a decade, renowned producer, DJ and musician Theo Parrish has got the band back together – and what a band

St Flannan’s is a challenging acoustic for musicians; here their solution is an energetic approach

Opera repertoire has broadened since the French composer’s 1967 comments, and ‘The Invader’ continues a fine recent tradition of new opera in Ireland

John Adams’s first opera, which had its premiere in 1987 but has just landed in Dublin, is full of ideas

The Kronos Quartet, who are celebrating their 40th anniversary, play their only Irish date this year, in Cork’s Opera House

Even bats go wild for the quartet’s take on Philip Glass’s music

It’s that tune again! Arvo Pärt tops the charts for cinematic over-exposure