Jane O’Leary & Sally Coyle - Galway Music Residency, GIAF and more

Episode 19. We are joined with Jane O'Leary and Sally Coyle who discuss their involvement with Galway Music Residency over the years, the role of ConTempo Quartet in Galway, the upcoming Galway International Arts Festival and the concerts in which ConTempo will be performing as well as the challenges of describing contemporary music.

Also included in the discussion are Music for Galway, the Galway Arts movement, Ed Bennett, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Christopher Marwood, Siegmund Nissel, getting Galway Music Residency up and running, Matthew Berrill, Hamza El Din, minimalism, Philip Glass, Miles Davis, the negative image of contemporary music, composing music that is popular but without dumbing down, getting into contemporary music for new listeners, free concerts in St. Nicholas Collegiate Church the first Tuesday of every month, Elizabeth Maconchy, female composers, Bill Whelan, Dave Flynn, Amanda Feery, Padraic Keane, Séamus & Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta, Finghin Collins, Arvo Pärt, Oscar Wilde, Eduard Vilde, Rhona Clarke, music oscillating between art and science, the pros and cons of putting a child in music classes and music lessons, how a string quartet functions, a string quartet's ranges and arrangements, Turlough O'Carolan, commissioning music in the 17th century, Beach Boys, the closeness of timbral qualities in siblings and cousins, the future of contemporary music in Ireland.