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My Tunes
Monday, 7-8pm
In each programme Aedín Gormley invites a guest to select, listen to and discuss a number of music pieces that hold a special meaning for them.
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Patrick Cassidy - 21st May 2012
Composer Patrick Cassidy was born in Claremorris, County Mayo and now lives in Los Angeles. His oratorio, The Children of Lir, with libretto in Irish, was his first important work. It was composed in 1990 and first performed in 1993 by the Tallis Choir. Patrick went on to write Famine Remembrance which premiered in 1996 at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. Notable film score credits include Veronica Guerin, Kingdom of Heaven and the critically acclaimed aria 'Vide Cor Meum' which Cassidy wrote for the film Hannibal. Last year Patrick recorded a new setting of the Latin Mass with The London Symphony Orchestra and London Voices and he has just completed a new soundtrack in Rome for the latest screen version of Romeo and Juliet.
Joann Falletta- 14th May 2012
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JoAnn Falletta was appointed as The Ulster Orchestra's principal conductor in May 2011. She is the first female to be appointed and first American to hold the position since the orchestra's inception in 1966. JoAnn is the Grammy award-winning music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in New York and has been described by the New York Times as "one of the finest conductors of her generation". She has been guest conductor with the Los Angeles and Dallas Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony.
John Boorman - 7th May 2012
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Aedín's guest is British film-maker John Boorman who has made Wicklow his home for the last 40 years and is best known for his feature films Hell in the Pacific, Deliverance, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Beyond Rangoon, The General and The Tailor of Panama. For this edition of My Tunes, John Boorman discusses the music he chooses to create the soundtracks for his films. From the duelling banjos of Deliverance to Wagnerian opera in Excalibur and Richie Buckley's snazzy saxophone tunes in The General.
Christopher Gabbitas - 30th April 2012
Ahead of their performance in The National Concert Hall, Aedín's guest is Christopher Gabbitas, 2nd baritone with The King's singers.
The British acappella vocal ensemble The King's Singers celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2008. Their name recalls King's College in Cambridge, England, where the group was formed by six choral scholars. Hugely popular with U.K audiences in the 1970s and early 1980s, they subsequently reached out to a wider international audience. In February 2009 their CD, Simple Gifts, won a Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album. Today the ensemble travels worldwide for its performances, appearing in around 125 concerts each year.
Natalie Clein - 23rd April 2012
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Natalie Clein has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes, including the Classical BRIT Award for Young British Performer of 2005. She won the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1994 and in the same year was the first ever British winner of the Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians in Warsaw. Her international career continues to gain momentum with concerts all over the world and several CDs. She is a committed mentor of young talent and has worked gives frequent master-classes and workshops.
Julia Carruthers - 16th April 2012
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Julia Carruthers is the former head of dance and performance at London's Southbank. She has also worked with leading arts organisations such as the Edinburgh International Festival, Michael Clark Company and was dance officer at the Arts Council of England. Last August she was appointed director of the Dublin Dance Festival which takes place this year from May 11th to 26th. She talks to Aedín Gormley about her own favourite pieces of music.
Neville Marriner - 9th April 2012
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Conductor Neville Marriner began his professional life as a violinist, first in a string quartet and trio, then in the London Symphony Orchestra, during which the founded the acclaimed Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in 1959 which has become one of the most comprehensively recorded chamber orchestras in the world. He left the London Symphony Orchestra in 1969 and founded the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, at the same time extending the repertoire of the Academy and guest conducting symphony orchestras around the world. Acknowledged as one of the most prominent figures in classical music living today, he talks to Aedín Gormley about his own favourite pieces of music.
(First broadcast on 25th February 2011)
Producer: Olga Buckley
Production Co-ordinator: Eoin O Kelly
Adrian Le Harivel - 2nd April 2012
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This week's guest is Adrian Le Harivel, Curator of British Art at the National Gallery of Ireland. As part of Dublin City Public Libraries "One City, One Book" initiative, Adrian is giving a lecture on the musical events in this year's featured book, James Joyce's Dubliners. Adrian's music choices include works closely associated with Joyce's stories by Michael Balfe and William Vincent Wallace, but also some selections which have a more personal resonance.
Producer: Olga Buckley
Production Co-ordinator: Eoin O Kelly
My Tunes Series 2
Programme information and audio from the current series of My Tunes
My Tunes Series 1
Programme information and audio from the first series of My Tunes
When: Friday, 7-8pm
Producer: Olga Buckley
Production Co-ordinator:
Eoin O Kelly
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