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Paul Morley: ‘I wanted to write about Mozart like the NME in 1980’
- Music
- October 3, 2020, 06:00
Cult pop conceptualist Paul Morley on post-punk mythmaking and his discovery of classical music What to do when you’re a fiftysomething writer a(...)

New Music Dublin festival breaks fresh ground
- Music
- March 4, 2020, 05:00
Remember the National Concert Hall’s old Kevin Barry Room? The one which turned Earlsfort Terrace into a destination for experimental and offbeat musi(...)

Philip Glass: ‘Everyone needs a technique, whether they’re a plumber or a cook’
- Music
- October 5, 2019, 05:00
In late October avant-garde composer, opera creator and musician Philip Glass will undertake a residency at the National Concert Hall that will includ(...)

Book of Sounds at Hugh Lane: This week’s classical highlights
- Music
- September 28, 2019, 05:00
Sunday, September 29th The Book of Sounds Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, hughlane.ie/forthcoming-sunday-concerts American composer Tom Johnson, a major (...)

Great Music in Irish Houses brings the programme up to date
- Music
- June 19, 2019, 05:00
Normally, the bread-and-butter programming of Great Music in Irish Houses comes mostly from the core classical repertoire. Last week, the 49th ed(...)

Colin Currie: Navigating a tightrope of rhythm
- Music
- June 8, 2019, 05:00
“Depending on how you cut it,” Colin Currie says wittily, “percussion is one of the newest old instruments or the oldest new instrument in classical m(...)

What’s new? Irish festivals reveal the state of contemporary music
- Music
- April 24, 2019, 05:00
The festival season starts in earnest every year in the run-up to the May bank holiday weekend. And all the major musical festivals have divulged deta(...)

Saint Sister: Shape of Silence review – Atmosfolk to see you through the wee hours
- Music
- September 28, 2018, 05:00
There was always something a little different about Saint Sister. When the Northern Irish duo first arrived on the scene in 2014, it wasn’t just Gemma(...)

Blurring the lines between speaking and singing
- Music
- April 11, 2018, 05:15
The human voice is everywhere in the world of music. Whole traditions and genres depend on it. Without it there would be no love songs, no choirs, no (...)

The Gloaming: ‘We’ve lost cohesion in our communities’
- Music
- March 5, 2018, 14:30
The National Concert Hall is a sacred space in the history of The Gloaming. Not many acts can claim to have played their first gig on Earlsfort Terrac(...)