Louth Contemporary Music Society feature as one of the Irish Times’ critic highlights for 2009
CLASSICAL
MICHAEL DERVAN
HIGHS
Jane O’Leary’s Concorde and Donnacha Dennehy’s Crash Ensemble have had the new music scene to themselves for far too long. Well, that’s what a younger generation seems to think, with a hive of mostly composer-driven new music activity from Ensemble ICC, [...]
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CLASSICAL REVIEW: Hilliard Ensemble
Philip Hammond heads south for an exhilarating evening of musicial modernity
I’m on the road south. I recall from my youth a smug little Northern Irish quip that you could always tell when you were in Northern Ireland because of the roads. You still can but for the opposite reason nowadays. For safety [...]
The Irish Times Review Tue, Oct 06, 2009
Hilliard Ensemble St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dundalk
There’s a conventional wisdom that the repertoire of the mainstream classical concert has become too narrow. And it’s certainly the case that the body of work from Bach to the late romantics is as hugely popular with audiences as it is with leading performers [...]
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