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My pet and me: ‘They just make everything better’
- Life & Style
- November 28, 2020, 06:00
FAMILIAR FACEs On how their Four-legged companions enrich their lives, from ‘calming’ alpacas and magnificent horses to Basset-Hound bosses Derv(...)

Communal virtuosity is abundant in NSO’s Strauss performance
- Music
- June 5, 2019, 05:00
Composers can be very disparaging about each other’s work, and also about their own. Mozart wrote about one of his late pieces for a mechanical organ (...)

Blackwater Valley Opera Festival review: In need of some firm quality control
- Music
- June 6, 2018, 05:00
It’s a while since I heard anyone talk about never wasting a good crisis, although the idea was frequently mentioned when Ireland was in the throes of(...)

Classical music: A musical storm blows in from Brussels, and Mozart is reborn in a stable
- Music
- June 8, 2016, 01:00
The Brussels Philharmonic made its Irish debut in style at the National Concert Hall on May 31st. The orchestra, which was founded by the Belgian pub(...)

The unpredictable sounds of an American Wolff in Dundalk
- Music
- June 3, 2015, 01:00
Heineken may not be brewed in Dundalk, but one of its most famous advertising slogans – about refreshing the parts other beers cannot reach – has m(...)

The Magic Flute in a circus makes for a frustrating experience in Lismore
- Music
- June 4, 2014, 01:00
Since its inception in 2010, the Lismore Music Festival has performed in the stable yard of Lismore Castle. A three-sided marquee has covered the audi(...)