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There's rather a glut of new or new-ish music this week. The Sligo New Music Festival is the first event to test the music spaces of the remodelled former Model Arts and Niland Gallery. The festival offers a weekend focus on the work of Gavin Bryars, and the programme includes performances of his two classics, The Sinking of the Titanicand Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet. There are also pieces by Donnacha Dennehy, Ed Lyon, Morla and Schnittke. The avuncular Bryars will be in attendance, and he will feature in a public interview with RTÉ Lyric FM's Bernard Clarke on Saturday afternoon.
On Friday the Contemporary Music Centre and Diatribe Records celebrate the issue of a four-disc set featuring works by 25 contemporary composers (16 of them Irish) with a three-part concert
at the NCH’s Kevin Barry Room by pianists Isabelle O’Connell and Izumi Kimura and clarinettist Paul Roe. The formal launch of the CDs is at the CMC’s offices in Fishamble Street, where there will be an installation by the other performer on the set, guitarist Simon Jermyn.
O'Connell will be back at the Kevin Barry Room on Tuesday, with a programme of Ken Steen, Terry Winter, Henry Cowell, James Mobberlely and George Crumb (Book I of Makrokosmos). The Morton Feldman celebrations at Imma continue on Saturday with a lecture by Bunita Marcus, followed by pianist Hugh Tinney playing Triadic Memories.
Also on Saturday, Concorde give an afternoon programme of works by Emma O'Halloran, Rhona Clarke, Alyson Barber, Deirdre McKay, Elaine Agnew and Jane O'Leary at NUI Maynooth as part of a conference on Women and Music in Ireland, and the Dublin Guitar Quartet play their arrangements of four Philip Glass string quartets and Arvo Pärt's Pari intervalloat St Ann's Church in Dublin.
Dylan Rynhart’s Components Series continues on Sunday with David Bremner on Fender Rhodes Piano at Dublin’s Centre for Creative Practices, starting at 6pm.
And in a free 2.30pm concert at Dundalk Institute of Technology on Thursday, pianist Deborah Armstrong offers a programme that includes Eibhlis Farrell, Ian Wilson, Victor Lazzarini, and Philip Martin, as well as works by Aloys Fleischmann and Annie Patterson.
