‘I certainly felt that the music and the man were one and the same thing’
Choral director Paul Hillier on his concert tribute to late composer Steve Martland
Steve Reich
Paul Morley: ‘I wanted to write about Mozart like the NME in 1980’
Cult pop conceptualist on post-punk mythmaking and his discovery of classical music
New Music Dublin festival breaks fresh ground
Unusual ambience and myriad external intrusions fails to derail eclectic artistry
Philip Glass: ‘Everyone needs a technique, whether they’re a plumber or a cook’
The composer on febrile 1960s New York, working day jobs into his 40s and the term ‘minimalism’
Book of Sounds at Hugh Lane: This week’s classical highlights
Bangers and Crash Percussion Group starts tour, teenage wunderkind Daniel Lozakovich
Great Music in Irish Houses brings the programme up to date
All-percussion concert with Colin Currie and tributes to John O’Conor veered from the classical core
Colin Currie: Navigating a tightrope of rhythm
When it comes to performing Steve Reich, the percussionist says, preparation is key
What’s new? Irish festivals reveal the state of contemporary music
Let’s see how new works and living, Irish and female composers fare in upcoming programmes
Blurring the lines between speaking and singing
The spoken word overlaid with music – or should it be the other way around – actually has quite a long history
The Gloaming: ‘We’ve lost cohesion in our communities’
Ahead of their sold-out concerts at the NCH, The Gloaming reflect on modern Ireland, women in trad, and how they work, rest and play
Chris Merrick Hughes: Serene minimalist music with revelatory quality
Chris Merrick Hughes: Eirenic Life, Helium, 4 stars
West Cork Chamber Music Festival gets the Hollywood treatment
Composer Hanns Eisler wrote the `Hollywood Songbook' while in enforced exile from Germany
Electronic music is everywhere, except the classical mainstream. This should change
Three festivals showcased electronic works that deserve to be heard by a wider audience
Musical taste: There’s no accounting for it, especially new stuff
Last weekend’s New Music festival finally delivered on its celebratory promise
Here's what happens when your first record is Miles Davis
Laura Jurd is one of jazz's fastest rising stars but her band Dinosaur has a sound that's pure early 1970s electric funk
Is silence golden? Welcome to ‘the last frontier of music’
Ten years after I first heard of Wandelweiser, Louth Contemporary Music Society has brought it to Ireland
Dublin has never had the contemporary music festival it deserves
New Music Dublin has suffered numerous abuses in its short life and has been postponed for 2016. Can it be fixed?
Manfred Eicher: the man who made ECM on working with Keith Jarrett, Steve Reich and Arvo Part
Since 1969 Manfred Eicher has had a singular influence on jazz through his ECM label. So what happens in a recording session with the enigmatic producer?
A Yeatsian balancing act between music and words
Yeats might well have appreciated the wordiness of William Brooks’s Everlasting Voices, which revisits the poet’s ideals of ‘chaunting’
Bryce Dessner harnesses Cork’s creative potential
The National guitarist is excited about curating the first Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival, which will be ‘like throwing a party for your friends’
The New York Philharmonic introduce Dublin to the daughter of chaos
The orchestra’s appearance at the NCH kept things contemporary, unorthodox and sensual
Kirkos Ensemble are drawn to the dark side
Classical Music: The ensemble is to give a series of concerts in the dark; elsewhere, street opera proves a slippery business
What? . . . Wow: not much new about David Lang’s festival of minimalism
Why this year’s festival turned to the US for a curator is hard to fathom
David Lang: ‘Minimalism existed for about a minute ’
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
Gradam Ceoil showcases the eclectic best of Irish traditional music
From the genius of Máirtín O’Connor and the huge contribution of the Irish Traditional Music Archive to the magpie stylings of Ensemble Ériú, the list of recipients of the annual TG4 awards is impressively diverse
An incurable romantic: who is the Max Bruch of the 21st century?
The German composer clung to the same style throughout his career – do any modern counterparts keep the faith?
Television: OM Dieu, a ‘Reign’ of error, and the towns of Ireland up in arms
‘Reign’ oozes anachronisms; you’ll find a more authentic torture and dark intrigue on ‘Shakedown the Town’
The fireworks and the finer points of ‘Nixon in China’
John Adams’s first opera, which had its premiere in 1987 but has just landed in Dublin, is full of ideas
Review: Pantha du Prince and the Bell Laboratory
Electronica royalty joins up with bell ringers – and somehow it works
An opera about bankers – the timing could not have been better
The ‘AntiMidas’ cast of four double as a Greek chorus and the media, presented as a wild line-up of TV pundits
No excuses for Music Network grants debacle
Why has Music Network allowed applicants for grants it is overseeing to sit on its judging panel?
Heart of Glass: how Dublin Guitar Quartet earned the composer’s approval
Even bats go wild for the quartet’s take on Philip Glass’s music
Blagging rights: a dummies’ guide to culture
Being in college means being in the know about all things music, art, film, food and politics, so here’s a cheatsheet to start you off
Pimp my piano: a technician lifts the lid
Dublin International Piano Festival opened with an intimate look at – and inside – the instrument
Radical rule-breaking and back to basics
There is a time for artistic licence – and a time to focus on basics of performing: William Brooks on Yeats, and string quartet masterclasses at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival
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