Posted in Interviews, Music, tagged Composers, Music on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First Published: The Irish Times, 28 June, 2008
IF THE PERFORMANCE calendar on his website is anything to go by, July looks set to be a month full of the music of Philip Glass. In Emden, Germany, there will be a performance of Glassworks, the 1982 chamber work with which he broke through to popular audiences, [...]
Posted in Film, Interviews, Music, tagged Cinema, Composers, Music, Soundtracks on June 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First Published: The Irish Times, June 14, 2008
‘I DON’T KNOW why they stopped using these things,” says John Barry, of the old-fashioned moviola machine which stands in the corner of his study. “Noisy as hell, but they’re still the best.” He pats the moviola, a sturdy freeze-framing contraption in retro grey steel, so bulky it [...]
Posted in Interviews, Visual Arts, tagged Artists, Visual Art, Visual Arts on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First Published: The Irish Times, June 12, 2008
IN CHILE, they have a saying. Two sayings, in fact. There’s “before Tunick” and “after Tunick”. There’s the era before Spencer Tunick came to Santiago and photographed some 4,000 volunteers lying naked and supine in a public park, and there’s the era afterwards. There’s the Chile which greeted [...]
Posted in Interviews, Music, tagged Composers, Music on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First Published: The Irish Times, June 9, 2008
IMAGINE YOU’RE a New York-based composer, living in Manhattan and reckoning with those same challenges of space and of square footage that every Manhattan resident must face. You live in a Soho loft, but not in one of those Soho lofts that resembles an aircraft hangar; yours is [...]
Posted in Interviews, Novelists, tagged Irish Literature, New Yorkers, Writers on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First Published: The Irish Times Magazine, June 7, 2008
LOOK AT THIS,” says Joseph O’Neill, standing at a desk in the livingroom of his apartment in the Chelsea Hotel. He picks up a manuscript, a hefty volume, and we browse through the pages together. It’s all here. Crime. Punishment. Pride. Prejudice. War. Peace. And a Tyrannosaurus [...]
