Resources for Students

Music worth listening to

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[30 seconds]     		 Angel Climent, Lamentations for choir:
from CD This is my Will
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[31 seconds]		 Frank Corcoran, Symphony No. 3:
from CD Frank Corcoran Symphonies
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[34 seconds]		 Raymond Deane, Seachanges (with Danse Macabre) for chamber ensemble:
from CD Seachanges
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[38 seconds]		 Deirdre Gribbin, The Sanctity of Trees for guitar:
from CD Rational Option Insanity
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[30 seconds]		 Michael McGlynn, Incantations for choir:
from CD Cynara
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[59 seconds]		 Philip Martin, The Fiddler of Dooney from Five W. B. Yeats Songs for soprano and piano:
from CD Echoes under the Stones
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[38 seconds]		 Gráinne Mulvey, Sextet Uno for chamber ensemble:
from CD Rational Option Insanity
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[59 seconds]		 Ian Wilson, Winter's Edge for string quartet:
from CD Towards the Far Country

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Articles worth reading

Irish Composers and Their Music (2002 January)
Brief historical overview of Irish composers of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.

Getting His Ideas Across (2001 September)
Michael Dungan talks to jazz musician and composer Ronan Guilfoyle.

A Calling Card from CMC (2001 May)
Michael Dungan writes about the latest release in the series, Contemporary Music from Ireland.

A Focus for New Music (2001 May)
Eve O'Kelly writes about the official opening of the new Centre by President of Ireland, Mary McAleese.

Driven, Determined and Busy (2001 February)
Michael Dungan talks to some of the younger generation of emerging Irish composers.

A Richer Life in Leitrim (2000 February)
Michael Dungan talks to Ian Wilson as he takes up a composer residency with Leitrim County Council.

Just Discovering (1999 September)
Michael Dungan talks to composer Roger Doyle as he celebrates being fifty.

A Very Ad Hoc Person (1998 May)
Michael Dungan talks to the composer Raymond Deane.

All articles © Contemporary Music Centre

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