From this Thursday 26 to Sunday 29, MBNA International Limerick Music Festival continues at St Mary’s Cathedral and UCH. The highlight is Saturday 28’s Hungarian Night in the concert hall, 8pm which features director Gabor Takacs-Nagy, guest violinist Antal Szalai and Irish Chamber Orchestra. Naturally the star players are Hungarian.
The programme will feature Brahms, Sarasate, Haydn, Bartok, Bruch and Beethoven’s Egmont Overture which was the anthem of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and symbol for victory.
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Lunch recitals at the cathedral
THE message is clear: doors open to everyone for the lunchtime recitals taking place on Wednesdays at St Mary’s Cathedral. Expect occasional visiting choirs, local or overseas, to supplement the essential frame of St Mary’s organist Peter Barley or other solo musician of note.
Admission is free to these 1.15pm to 2pm concerts but a collection is made for The Companions of St Mary’s Cathedral music. If you have a bob, offer it up and if you don’t, don’t.
On Wednesday June 1, Peter Barley plays music by Eric Sweeney, Buxethude and Whitlock. Wednesday June 8 hears the organ player play music by Mozart and Liszt and on Wednesday June 15, concert pianist Stuart O’Sullivan will play us Mozart’s Sonata in D, other compositions and Liszt.
White House Wednesdays
ALL writers, poets and readers are invited to the friendly Wednesday night suite of readings that are an established corner of our culture. White House Bar is the scene for this open-mic congress from 9pm onwards, each week hosting a principal poet.
The running order for June Wednesdays reads: June 1, Louis Mulcahy; June 8, Meave O’Sullivan; June 15, Donal O’Flynn and June 22, Eddie Lenihan.
Finger food is served on the night and respect for the readings is appreciated.
A top security team secreted the 9thC Cashel Bell from its home at Hunt Museum to the Rock of Cashel, where it was found in 1849. The bell became part of a display of historic artefacts such as the Book of Kells for Beanríon Eilís a Dó agus HRH the Duke. It’s now returned to the museum for our admiration every day of the a week.
