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- A copy of Dr. Stacie Rossow's Doctoral dissertation at the University of Miami, Florida has been made available to download from their site in PDF format here. ""The Choral Music of Irish Composer Michael McGlynn" is a detailed and varied exploration of Michael's music and theories.
- "Agnus Dei" features on the album The Best of Chanticleer. It is available to purchase from here. Michael's "Agnus Dei" from Chanticleer's "And on Earth, Peace
- a Chanticleer Mass" was featured in their programme In Time Of... Songs of Love & Loss, War & Peace. This beautiful programme featured works by Palestrina, Dufay, Janequin, Legeti, Chen Yi, Sametz, McGlynn, Bates, Gershwin and others. Performances were be in Obispo, Carmel, Santa Clara,
Napa, Walnut Creek, Sacramento and San Francisco throughout 2009. See details of dates here.
You can alos hear the programme twice next March at the
SF Conservatory of Music.
- RTÉ Lyric FM broadcast the July 2009 recording of Anúna performing with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra as follows :
Wednesday October 14th 11am
Anúna with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Part of a concert recorded July 2009
Music composed and orchestrated by Michael McGlynn including Media Vite, Silver River, Twilight, May, The White Rose and Midnight
Wednesday October 21st 11am
Anúna with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
The second part of a concert recorded July 2009
Music composed and orchestrated by Michael McGlynn including The Great Wood, the Coming of Winter, Jerusalem, Dúlamán and Pie Jesu.
- The Arts Show on Ireland's main radio channel RTÉ Radio One broadcast an interview with Michael on Tuesday 14th of July. Michael discusses many aspects of his work and there are extracts from the latest Anúna album SANCTUS. Listen here.
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SANCTUS the new Anúna album features four tracks written by Michael, with one arrangement. Also released is INVOCATIONS OF IRELAND, an 18 track DVD. This DVD was filmed and edited by Michael.
The album is available to purchase online from iTunes HERE, and will hit the streets in Ireland on July 1st and the USA on August 1st.
For a limited time you can purchase the album and DVD as a double purchase for a greatly reduced price of 21.00 euro [4 euro P&P] HERE. Both titles are available separately. |
- The Contemporary Music
Centre of Ireland featured Michael as Composer
of the Month for July 2009, and there is a YouTube video available
to see of an interview given with him last in Dublin about
that month's show with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra that month. On the same page is a podcast of audio interviews from the same session. You can
read about the performance here on the CMC site, and here on Michael's blog.
- Incantations,
written by Michael in the same key as his old moped, is in the
news at the moment. It won the CMC Trophy at the Cork
Choral Festival for PfizerPfonics [read the story here].
- Michael has posted a special Blog on his Wordpress site here discussing the forthcoming concert of his music at the National Concert Hall on July 17th featuring the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and Anúna. He discusses some of the music in the concert including "Twilight" and "The Coming of Winter".
- It is only in recent years that Anúna's director/composer-in-residence Michael McGlynn has begun to have his works performed in Ireland by Irish choirs, despite many years of performances throughout the world. This year, at the Cork Choral Festival [Ireland's premiere choral festival] two of Michael's works won awards for Irish choirs.The awards were Trofaí Cuimhneacháin Philib Ui Laoghaire [awarded to Clermont Chorale, Dundalk, Co. Louth for An Oíche] and The Perpetual Trophy for the Performance of Irish Contemporary Choral Music [awarded to PfizerPfonics for the performance of Geantraí]. Michael writes "I am delighted that these two works have won awards for Irish choirs. The Cork Choral Festival is Ireland's most important choral festival, and it is fitting that choirs are rewarded for performances of contemporary Irish work. However, there is a lack of performable pieces by Irish composers in the choral repertoire - and while I am flattered by the increasing inclusion of my work in the repertoire, I am not heartened by the lack of works being performed by my composer colleagues. It is time that the Cork Choral Festival and the Arts Council of Ireland address the need for the creation of repertoire that is performable by amateur choirs, rather than concentrating on commissioning works that usually get one performance, and then no more. Visiting choirs are always looking for new music, and what better shop-window for Irish composition than this Festival".
- A new recording of "Jerusalem", arranged by Michael, will appear in episode 10 of the new season of The Tudors, and on BBC4 TV the piece "Sanctus" is being used for How to Build a Cathedral.
- Ronan O Sullivan, the Irish film-maker, has posted his evocative English/Irish Language ghost-story An Tiaracht to YouTube. It features a score of Michael's music, including "1901" "Ceann Dubh Dílis" and "Victimae". Thanks to the wonders of YouTube here is the entire short film for you to view and comment on - well done Ronan!
- On April 5th 2008 Anúna recorded material for a new project in St Peter's Church, Drogheda. The resulting album, as yet untitled, will feature Michael's "Agnus Dei", Allegri's "Miserere" and Lotti's eight voice "Crucifixus" among other tracks. The album will be released in Ireland in 2008 and in 2009 in the USA.
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