Aloys Fleischmann Lecture

To mark the centenary of the birth of Aloys Fleischmann, MRIA, composer and Professor of Music at UCC 1934-80, a discourse lecture will be held in the Royal Irish Academy on the 15th February. For more information or to reserve a place see the RIA website.

In the News

Playing to the child within

“‘There is only good theatre and bad theatre, it doesn’t matter whether the target audience is children or not,’ says actor Louis Lovett, the new resident Theatre Maker at The Ark”
SARA KEATING Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The label of the personal

WHEN PRODUCER Manfred Eicher established the German independent music label, ECM – the letters stand for Edition of Contemporary Music – in 1969, there was, he says, “no plan, nothing”. He simply wrote to the musicians he had met on the road and asked whether they would be interested in recording for the new label, writes RAY COMISKEY
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Piping up for the Pale

At next week’s Temple Bar TradFest, a photographic exhibition will document Dublin’s long, varied and sometimes underrated contribution to the history of traditional music, writes SIOBHÁN LONG
Monday, January 25, 2010

Library closed Saturday 30th

The library will be closed this Saturday, 30th January. We will open again as usual on Monday 1st February. A list of our Saturday opening times is available here. Other DIT Library opening hours are available on the website.

International Network for Vocal and Instrumental Teacher Education (INVITE) Conference

DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama will host the INVITE conference on the 16th-17th April. The conference is entitled “The Education of Instrumental and Vocal Teachers – Developing Professional Competences”.

For more information see the Conservatory website.

In the News

Discordant notes strike Vanbrugh

“Amid fears that RTÉ may reduce its commitment to the Vanbrugh Quartet, MARY LELAND gauges reaction in its resident city of Cork and MICHAEL DERVAN teases out the issues”
Monday, January 18, 2010

Opera gets the X Factor

“The Veronica Dunne Singing Competition has a first prize of €10,000 – but that might be just the beginning for the winner”
MINTA WALLACE – Thursday, January 14, 2010

World of possibility

“Networking doesn’t always come easily to artists, but as Irish performers broaden their horizons at this week’s music dance and theatre showcases in New York, they’re proving pretty good at it”
BELINDA McKEON – Friday, January 15, 2010

Digitised Irish Scores

There is a new section in the Music Resources on our web page. A link has also been provided on the Music Subject Links page. Over 100 Irish scores have been digitised and may be viewed / printed for personal study by staff and students of DIT using their password. Permission has kindly been given by rights holders.

The collection dates mainly from the first half of the twentieth century and includes works by O Gallchobhair, Stanford, Hughes and de Regge.

Violin making

Two interesting articles from the Economist Christmas Special:

Older and Richer

“Violin-making is flourishing, but the 450-year-old ones are still the best” The Economist Dec 17th 2009

The sweet sound of nightingales

“What makes a violin sing”
The Economist Dec 17th 2009

Christmas Opening Hours

The library will be closed this Saturday, 19th December. We will be open again as usual on Monday.

The library will close for Christmas at lunchtime on Wednesday, 23rd December.

We will be closed Thursday, 24th December – Sunday, 3rd January, 2010.

Normal opening hours will resume at 9:30 am Monday, 4th January, 2010.

The Library staff would like to wish all DIT staff and students a very Happy Christmas and New Year.

Virtual Manuscript of Handel’s Messiah

The British Library have added the original manuscript of Handel’s Messiah to their Turning the Pages or virtual books facility. The manuscript is accompanied by extracts from 2006 Naxos recording of the 1751 version of Messiah, as well as audio and text commentaries.

The Turning the Pages collection also contains sixteenth century manuscripts of compositions by William Byrd and Mozart’s musical diary.

Library Development

You may have noticed some building work in the library. A new facility – a quiet reference area – is being created beyond the Listening Room. Entrance is through the Listening Room.

The new facility will be for quiet study only. It will house the Reference collection, the dissertations, current and bound journals and the Bach library of the late Anne Leahy.

Structural work will finish before Christmas. Shelving and desking will be installed some weeks into the new year.

We hope you will like it.