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FEBRUARY 2005 - NEW ON OUR WEB SITE
www.cmc.ie

COMING UP THIS MONTH
CMC’s Salon next Saturday features choral and percussion works. See you at Project, Dublin, 12 February at 1.00pm.
www.cmc.ie/news/2005/cmc-feb-salon.html

The RTE Living Music Festival runs from 18-20 February featuring Hans Werner Henze plus three Irish commissions.
www.cmc.ie/news/2004/rte-commissions.html

enCODEd, a collaborative multimedia project of the Context Gallery, Derry, and the Contemporary Music Centre, comes to Dublin from 21-26 February.
www.cmc.ie/news/2004/morse-code.html

IN THE FEBRUARY CALENDAR...
Frank Lyons’ collaborative installation, Ballintrillick, opens at the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, 17 February...
Elaine Agnew’s new violin work for Catherine Leonard is premiered in Sligo on 18 February...
Deirdre Gribbin tours the UK with ‘Venus Blazing’ from 22 February...
The Dublin Guitar Quartet performs Dwyer and Volans on 24 February...
PLUS...Jennifer Walshe in Stockholm and Hamburg... Ed Bennett in Moscow... Donnacha Dennehy in Rotterdam... Ciaran Farrell in Birmingham...

EARLY WARNINGS FOR MARCH...
CMC’s March Salon takes place on 5 March...
RTE ‘Horizons’ lunchtime concerts are on 1 and 8 March...

‘I WAS ALWAYS INTERESTED IN STARS and cosmology’, says Fergus Johnston. ‘In a way, every piece of music has its own universe.’ Read our Composer of the Month interview with video and audio clips.
www.cmc.ie/articles/article978.html

YOUR LATEST ROUND-UP OF NEWS
Catch up on events and developments in new music.
www.cmc.ie/news/index.html

THE CD OF THE MONTH for February is Volume 4 in our promotional series, Contemporary Music from Ireland.
www.cmc.ie/news/2004/cmc-cd-vol4.html

‘BECAUSE IT’S EXCITING and hasn't gone wrong yet,’ the future is the period of history Fergus Johnston would most like to live in. Check out the ‘What’s it like to be...’ feature.
www.cmc.ie/articles/article986.html

BEEN SHOPPING LATELY?
Our shop carries the best selection anywhere of new Irish music on CD. Browse and buy online.
www.cmc.ie/shop/index.cfm

SEND US YOUR NEWS! Short items (ca 150 words) directly relevant to contemporary Irish music are welcome for inclusion in the ‘What’s New’ section of our web site. Please email them (no attachments) to Sinead O’Sullivan, mailto:sosullivan@cmc.ie by the 15th of each month. No guarantee of publication is given and items are subject to editing for length and clarity.

Greetings from the CMC team.