This is your monthly reminder to check out new material posted on the web site of the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland.

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

CMC WILL BE WIRED FOR SOUND in an interactive installation by Jonathan Nangle for the Temple Bar Open Day on Sunday, 19 June. Admission free, 1.00­5.00 pm.
www.cmc.ie/news/2005/open-day.html

CMC's 'FINDING OUR VOICE' exhibition tracing the history of Irish music is currently on show in London as part of the Spitalfields Festival.
www.cmc.ie/news/2005/cmc-exhibition.html

WHAT'S ON IN JUNE?
Concorde performs in the National Gallery of Ireland on 9 June and in London at the Spitalfields Festival on 11 June.
www.cmc.ie/news/2005/concorde-spnm.html

Piers Hellawell's 'Maquette' is premiered at the Spitalfields Festival, London, on 18 June...
Eric Sweeney's 'Alleluia ­ Pange Lingua' is premiered in Kilkenny on 19 June...
Stephen Gardner's new string quartet is performed by the RTE Vanbrugh Quartet at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival on 26 June...
www.cmc.ie/calendar/index.cfm

EARLY WARNINGS FOR JULY
Ninth World Harp Congress, 17-24 July with premieres by John Buckley and Michael Alcorn and harp concertos by Philip Martin and Gerard Victory.
www.cmc.ie/news/index.html

At school STEPHEN GARDNER was in the remedial music class: 'You had people that were interested in music,' he says, 'and then you had the wazzos like us'. Read his Composer of the Month interview with video/audio clips.
www.cmc.ie/articles/article1011.html

BILL CAMPBELL'S MUSIC for Dermot Healy's evocative poems from 'The Reed Bed' is our CD of the Month featuring Concorde.
www.cmc.ie/shop/cd_detail.cfm?itemID=1663

STEPHEN GARDNER's favourite food is beans on toast and his alternative career is taxidermist. Read his 'What's it like to be' feature.
www.cmc.ie/articles/article1012.html

WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?
Catch up on all the news and events from Ireland and further afield.
www.cmc.ie/news/index.html

The Irish Composition Summer School (11-22 July) still has some places available.
www.cmc.ie/opportunities/courses.html#irish

DON'T FORGET OUR SHOP has the best selection anywhere of new Irish music on CD, now with an even easier shopping cart facility.
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.