Louth Contemporary Music Society: Coming Together review – New music makes festival’s strongest impression
Beat Furrer’s boundary-blurring music features alongside work by Jürg Frey, Caroline Shaw, Julius Eastman, Harry Partch and Frederic Rzewski
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‘Somehow I regret being here in the mountains. I really need to go to concerts’
Beat Furrer is among the composers whose work features at Louth Contemporary Music Society’s Coming Together festival
Music Current violinist Judith Fliedl: ‘New music means freedom. It means being individual. You can be who you are’
Although she adores classical and has even played Mozart’s concert violin, for the Austrian musician the world of contemporary music is now ‘totally’ where she belongs
Louth Contemporary Music Society: Echoes review – Astonishing musicianship brings Bernhard Lang’s iridescent microtonal worlds to life
Aleph Guitar Quartet are a highlight of this year’s Dundalk festival
Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Stimmung at the Lovely Music festival: A clear, confident performance of a relic of its time
The piece Neue Vocalsolisten perform is like a world-ranking tourist attraction that has been so hyped it has little chance of meeting expectations
Robert Ashley’s Crash at the Lovely Music festival: Riveting in a way that leaves you wanting to dive in again
Performance by the astonishingly virtuosic Varispeed Collective is a kind of sensory overload
‘What a magical, bizarre, tragic way to learn a piece of music’
Highlights of Louth Contemporary Music Society’s Lovely Music Festival include Crash, Robert Ashley’s final opera, and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Stimmung
Folks’ Music: Terry Riley would love this trad take on In C every bit as much as the audience did
Louth Contemporary Music Society’s engaging weekend festival also featured the Esposito Quartet, Sigma Project and Explore Ensemble
A trad take on Terry Riley’s In C: ‘It’s totally out of the comfort zone for all of us’
In C will be performed by Irish traditional musicians, led by Zoë Conway in St. Nicholas’ Church of Ireland, Dundalk on Saturday, June 17th, as part of this year’s Louth Contemporary Music Society festival. louthcms.org SOLD OUT
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Louth Contemporary Music Society’s Book of Hours Festival was unfailingly adventurous
Louth music: Eamonn Quinn ‘first backstage laureate’ of Belmont Prize
Founder of Louth Contemporary Music Society singled due to ‘burning passion for contemporary music’
Tradfest: The old and the new meet in Temple Bar
The Olllam and Bellowhead have built their reputations on fiery live shows, which Irish audiences can experience at this week’s Temple Bar TradFest
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