Classical musician achieved unlikely fame with Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, composed in memory of the Holocaust, writes Maev Kennedy in The Guardian. He had been regarded as a pioneer of modernism in his own country, though later adopted a more pared-down, minimalist style and became noted for religious music. In 1992, a recording of his [...]
THE JUDITH MOK HAMSA ENSEMBLE SMOCK ALLEY THEATRE (formerly SS Michael & John) THURSDAY 29TH OCT Doors: 8PM Adm: € 20/15 ‘MY HEART IS IN THE EAST’, AN EVENING OF SEPHARDIC AND PERSIAN MUSIC PERFORMED BY THE JUDITH MOK HAMSA ENSEMBLE Performed by Judith Mok soprano and Javid Afsari Rad santour, with Nick Roth sax, [...]
A special thanks to all who made it to my Out to Lunch reading in the Irish Writers’ Centre last Friday (see previous entry). I had forgotten it was a bank holiday, so a lot of friends family and acquaintances couldn’t make it. Some of them were working through the lunchhour. So it was a [...]
I’ve been meaning to put up some Irish literary links for some time. The Cat Flap I’m no objectivist (I think!) but I really enjoyed Peter Sirr’s review of The Poems of Charles Reznikoff, 1918 – 1975, and while I could take or leave some of the poems quoted, I thought this was marvellous. Walk [...]