4 SEPTEMBER 2007 - Number 55

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September 2007

NEW ON THE SITE 'Chamber music is rather like the composer's potting shed,' says Piers Hellawell, 'It's the place where you let things hang out and do mad experiments that blow up.' Read, listen or view his interview with Michael Quinn. www.cmc.ie/articles/article1266.html

CMC NEWS

 CMC takes part in Culture Night on 14 September with performances from electronic musicians Ian McDonnell, Ewan Hennelly (Muttermal) and Francis Heery.
www.cmc.ie/news/2007/cmc-culture-night.html

 CMC will host the launch of books on Raymond Deane and Aloys Fleischmann on 21 September.
www.cmc.ie/news/2007/field-day-launch.html

 An Online Survey is being carried out by CMC as part of its Recording Feasibility Study and the deadline for responses is 14 September.
www.cmc.ie/news/2007/cmc-recording-study.html

 CMC's new music Salon series begins on 27 September with cellist Kate Ellis.
www.cmc.ie/news/2007/cmc-salon-series.html

 The second workshop in the New Music Connects project takes place on 28 September in Galway.
www.cmc.ie/news/2007/new-music-connects3.html

CD OF THE MONTH Ghost Stories. A new CD from The Smith Quartet featuring a performance of Michael Alcorn's 'The Old Woman of Beare'. www.cmc.ie/shop/cd_detail.cfm?itemID=2447

WHAT'S HAPPENING IN SEPTEMBER?

 Concorde performs new works by Irish composers in Galway on 16 September and Dublin on 23 September.
www.cmc.ie/news/2007/second-performances.html

 Ian Wilson's eight string quartet is performed at the official opening of the Cork School of Music on 14 September.
www.cmc.ie/news/2007/wilson-string-quartet.html

 The Fidelio Trio perform works by Irish composers at the Música Viva Festival in Portugal.
www.cmc.ie/news/2007/portuguese-premieres.html

 New works for soprano saxophone and string quartet by Ciarán Farrell and Greg Caffrey will be performed on 15 September at the Wigmore Hall, London.
www.cmc.ie/news/2007/wigmore-premieres.html

 Andrew Hamilton's work will be performed at the Gaudeamus Music Week.
www.cmc.ie/news/2007/gaudeamus-week.html

ALSO ON THIS SITE

A virtual tour of the CMC's 'Art of Sound' Exhibition held in Rothe House during the Kilkenny Arts Festival, 11-19 August 2007.
www.cmc.ie/articles/article1268.html

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