Proposal for €250m complex will take account of port’s heritage, says Kevin O’Sullivan

Spokesman claims proposal for 40-storey skyscraper on Lapps Island is ‘ludicrous’

Lauma Skride, UO/Olari Elts – Ailish Tynan (soprano), ICO/Katherine Hunka (violin)

Three festivals showcased electronic works that deserve to be heard by a wider audience

Last weekend’s New Music festival finally delivered on its celebratory promise

Patrick Freyne looks at how US presidents have been sworn in across the centuries

Heirlooms and oranges, an all-white tree and introducing blue : designers and curators reveal the looks they like at home

Ennio Morricone revolutionised cinema music but has never won an Oscar for one of his scores. He’s up again, for ‘The Hateful Eight’. Does he care? Just a little

Orchestra members fulfil vital extracurricular functions such as providing music education and road-testing new music

Times have been hard, but the decision to cut funding to three musical organisations is unnecessarily damaging

New Music Dublin has suffered numerous abuses in its short life and has been postponed for 2016. Can it be fixed?

It’s been a busy year for the winners of last year’s competition with sales up in most cases and a lot of good will from customers

A selection of the best, oddest and most memorable musings by some of the world’s artistic greats, as told to Irish Times writers

The Wexford-bound Silent Night explores the horror of war through the prism of the unofficial Christmas Eve truce of 1914. Its composer and librettist talk about the making of a Pulitzer Prize winner

John Adams’s first opera, which had its premiere in 1987 but has just landed in Dublin, is full of ideas

Composer John Adams ‘didn’t really know’ what he was doing when he wrote his first opera – that hasn’t stopped ‘Nixon in China’, which does exactly what it says on its musical tin, travelling around the world

New York’s Attacca Quartet are in Ireland to play the ‘humorous’ music of John Adams. The four friends talk about their complicated relationship