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JMI [editor_at_thejmi_dot_com]
Sent: 22 May 2007 11:58
Subject: May-June '07 issue of JMI – The
Journal of Music in Ireland
The May-June '07 issue of JMI
– The Journal of Music in Ireland is now
available.
Please see details of the
latest issue below.
The JMI archive 2000–2007 is
now SEARCHABLE and FREE TO VIEW for a limited time only on our new website –
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CONTENTS: MAY-JUNE
2007
NÍ ÓN nGAOTH A FUAIR SÉ
É
–
MÍCHEÁL Ó SÚILLEABHÁIN
Pianist, composer and Director of
the Irish World Centre of Music and Dance, Mícheál Ó
Súilleabháin, reviews a new book on his former teacher
and colleague, the Cork composer Aloys
Fleischmann
PAST, PRESENT
AND FUTURE OF AN ENGLISH PATRIOT
–
CARLO GÉBLER
Novelist
Carlo Gébler reads
English singer-songwriter and activist Billy
Bragg's new
polemic, The
Progressive Patriot: a search for
belonging
HOW TO COMPOSE IN YOUR OWN
TIME
–
JOHN MCLACHLAN
John McLachlan on Stravinsky, Varèse and John Adams –
'...those who have turned towards writing more accessible music are just
pessimists for the future, and those who continue on the recondite road are
optimists...'
COLOUR ON ALL
SIDES
–
BARRA Ó SÉAGHDHA
Barra Ó
Séaghdha reviews the recent RTÉ Living Music Festival which focused on jazz
and the music of American composer John
Adams
HIS
PENCIL POISED
–
PETER WOODS
One hundred years
after the publication of The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001
Gems…, Peter Woods
reviews a recent book on James O'Neill which throws new light on the O'Neill
collections
MYTUNES AND I
–
TONER QUINN
Toner Quinn on
traditional tunes and musicians' relationships to
tunes
MUSICAL TEXTS OF THE
ELITES
–
BARRA Ó SÉAGHDHA
Barra Ó Séaghdha
finds much to debate in a recent work on music and Irish
identity
LIVE
REVIEWS
Chris Wood
/ i-and-e festival / Ronan Guilfoyle's Terms and Conditions
Apply
CD
REVIEWS
Oisín McAuley
/ Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh / Cyprian Love / Barry Douglas and
Camerata Ireland / Finghin Collins
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Listings of new CDs,
DVDs, books, periodicals & scores – provided by the Irish Traditional
Music Archive and the Contemporary Music
Centre
MARCH-APRIL 07 MUSIC GUIDE
A two-month guide to
festivals, concerts, tours & sessions
IMAGES FROM THE ARCHIVE
The Irish Music Club
of Chicago fl. c. 1901–09, a semi-formal
association of Irish traditional musicians which included many source-players
for The Dance Music of Ireland. 1001
Gems…, the bible of Irish dance tunes compiled and published
by Francis O’Neill in Chicago one hundred years ago this
year
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