Upcoming Events

National | Arts and Media

no events match your query!

Blog Feeds

Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:40 | Mark

offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

offsite link The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:39 | Paul Ryan

offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 21:31 | imc

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link BBC ?Indoctrinating Children With Pro-Trans Agenda? Fri Nov 14, 2025 17:13 | Will Jones
The BBC has been accused of "indoctrinating" children with pro-trans programmes after a number of children's shows broadcast by the corporation uncritically presented activist perspectives.
The post BBC “Indoctrinating Children With Pro-Trans Agenda” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link RedBird Pulls Out of Telegraph Takeover Amid China Link Concerns Fri Nov 14, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
The US private equity firm RedBird Capital Partners has pulled out of its bid for control of the Telegraph amid concerns over foreign state control and links to China.
The post RedBird Pulls Out of Telegraph Takeover Amid China Link Concerns appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The BBC: My Part In Its Downfall Fri Nov 14, 2025 13:21 | Iain Macwhirter
BBC staff have always been very Left-wing, but they used to avoid letting it show. That all changed in 2014, first with climate change, then trans, then anything 'Right-wing'. It's been a disaster, says Iain Macwhirter.
The post The BBC: My Part In Its Downfall appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Reeves Ditches Income Tax Rise ? and Streeting Celebrates Fri Nov 14, 2025 12:28 | Will Jones
Rachel Reeves has?dramatically ditched?Budget?plans to hike income tax, leading Wes Streeting to?effectively claim victory as he publicly declared that he had not supported the rise.
The post Reeves Ditches Income Tax Rise ? and Streeting Celebrates appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Ben & Jerry?s Needs to Butt Out of UK Democracy Fri Nov 14, 2025 10:25 | Charlotte Gill
Ultra-woke ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's celebrated this week as Parliament responded to its latest campaign ? which was far from its first. It's time for Ben & Jerry's to butt out of UK democracy, says Charlotte Gill.
The post Ben & Jerry’s Needs to Butt Out of UK Democracy appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

Voltaire Network >>

Big Orchestra

category national | arts and media | news report author Thursday March 29, 2007 17:47author by Sean Crudden - imperoauthor email sean.crudden at iol dot ieauthor address Jenkinstown, Dundalk, Co Louth.author phone 0879739945 Report this post to the editors

Linda Kelly Retires

The National Symphony Orchestra mustered a complement of 104 players at its concert on Friday 23 March 2007 in the National Concert Hall. This number included six percussionists and one timpanist. It was the final performance in the career of cellist Linda Kelly. She joined the orchestra in September 1972 and conductor Grehard Markson called her up to the centre of the stage before the interval and presented her with a gold-ribboned box of chocolates. She looked cool and fit and accepted the applause of the audience indulgently and graciously as she did at the end of the concert when the conductor called her to his side again.

As part of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2006 - 2007 Season (in association with Anglo Irish Bank) in the National Concert Hall a program of music took place, starting at 8.00 p.m. on Friday 23 March 2007, featuring

Wagner
Prelude Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Finale Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Mahler
Symphony No. 7 in E minor.

In the second Wagner piece bass-baritone Matthew Best showed an imposing, athletic, agreeable presence and declaimed his music well with serious purpose. He is an interesting performer and I would have liked to hear him tonight when he is singing again at the National Concert Hall.

The crescendos in the symphony were delivered with hit and the little dialogues of call and counter call here and there were well worked out. Conclusions were perfect. The orchestra performed quite comfortably over a very wide range of dynamics. Everyone seemed to be properly engaged and no-one seemed tired at the end of what is a long and demanding symphony. I think the reason for this was two-fold: the temperature in the hall was moderately cool (I thought) and the performance went well for all concerned with a minimum of glitches in both audience and orchestra.

Related Link: http://www.iol.ie/~impero/

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Friday     Sean Crudden    Thu Mar 29, 2007 18:01 


 
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy