Wednesday, September 3, 2008

An Olympian of the keyboard

Madam, - If there were Olympics for music Barry Douglas would win a gold medal.

Last Sunday evening at Castletown he played not one, but three Beethoven piano concertos - Nos 2, 4 and 5 - while conducting Camerata Ireland from the piano. Is there another pianist in the world who could perform this task? I very much doubt it.

Ireland has produced yet another genius in the arts world. - Yours, etc,

URSULA HOUGH-GORMLEY,

Ormond Road,

Rathmines,

Dublin 6.

This article appears in the print edition of the Irish Times

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