Louise Farrenc

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American literary critic Harold Bloom: those who promote broadening the canon to include more women or post-colonial or LGBT or non-English or non-white writers belong to what he calls a “school of resentment”. Photograph: Jim Wilson/The New York Times
Tiptoeing into the minefield of so-called classical canon
  • Music
  • October 23, 2019, 05:00

Is it in the canon? Concerts this past week made me wonder about music that is and music that isn’t considered part of the so-called classical canon. (...)

English mezzo-soprano Katie Bray plays the title role in Griselda
The week’s best classical and opera: Griselda to ConTempo Quartet

SATURDAY 12  Griselda Town Hall Theatre, Galway, and on tour It never rains but it pours. Vivaldi has had a centuries-long wait for a performan(...)

Irish violinist Mairéad Hickey.
Lesson from West Cork for Galway’s troubled European Capital of Culture

Virtually everything I’ve come across about Galway’s stint as European Capital of Culture next year, has been negative. However, one shining beacon on(...)

Chiaroscuro quartet plays at The West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Bantry
Classical music: What to see at this summer’s festivals

The big summer festivals are on the way. The Great Music in Irish Houses festival June 11th-16th, the West Cork Chamber Music Festival June 29th to Ju(...)

Soprano Anna Devin in commanding form as titular character in Handel’s Esther
The first Female Composer Series falls short of the standards expected of the National Concert Hall

Tchaikovsky left seven symphonies. But he didn’t actually compose the Seventh Symphony that the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) played under Tho(...)

Pinchas Zukerman, who made his New York debut as a violinist at the age of 15 in 1963
Female Composer Series, Pinchas Zukerman, Esther: The best classical music gigs this week

Saturday, March 30th ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA/PINCHAS ZUKERMAN NCH, Dublin 8pm €40-€80 nch.ie For the second time in eight days the National Co(...)

The ConTempo Quartet: Their two programmes in the NCH’s International Concert Series feature pieces by Jennifer Walshe and Linda Buckley
Evolution of women composers a missing link in new concert series

The first of the 13 concerts in the National Concert Hall’s new International Concert Series gets under way tonight with the Baltimore Symphony Orches(...)

In rehearsal at the National Concert Hall ahead of the Chamber Music Gathering, were, from left, David McElroy (violin), Siun Milne (violin), Ed Creedon (viola), Beth McNinch (viola) and Christopher Ellis (cello). Photograph: Mark Stedman
Chamber Music Gathering ignores female composers for second year

The National Concert Hall held its second Chamber Music Gathering last Saturday. The hall’s chief executive Simon Taylor describes the three-concert e(...)